Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.

Indeed, often because of the size and weight in the world of our neighbor, we in Canada often define ourselves in contrast to American positions on things like Cuba, the Vietnam War and nuclear disarmament. Historically, Canada has not always been aligned with the United States. It doesn't necessarily serve anyone's interests - Canadian or American - to be seen as an extension of the United States.

India claimed to have intervened in Sri Lanka to secure Tamil interests. In actual fact, India came to secure its own interests.

I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad campaign, it has been because the product did not interest me.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

I never talk about things that don't matter. I never talk about things that are unimportant. I always talk about things that interest me.

I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

In my community everyone seems to listen or have an interest in what I have to say, what I'm wearing, or what I'm doing. They just follow what I do, I don't tell them to. I just try to lead by example.

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

Interest is the barometer of the state.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. And many, many, if not most interviews have that character. The interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. Interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. You should not know what you're going to hear. You should be surprised.

In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

Intuition always has our best interest at heart.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.

In the United States national security interests to have a working relationship with Russia.

In the US, commercial interests stole the airwaves early on, before public broadcasters could get a stab at it. And the deal that was made with public broadcasting was, "Okay, we'll allow there to be a handful of public stations to do the educational programming that commercial broadcasters don't want to do, but the deal is they can't do anything that can generate an audience, anything that's commercially viable." Anything they do that could be commercially viable could be considered unfair competition to commercial interests and should only be on the commercial stations.

Invest your money in Dada! Dada is the only savings bank that pays interest in the hereafter!

I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author's work.

I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read 'Time Magazine', I read 'Politico', I read 'Mediaite'. This is what I do! I read every day, I have interests, I'm like everybody out there who's watching, who's out there watching, you know?

I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is.

I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.