Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great.

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

Anything simple always interests me.

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic - is what is in the public interest to know. And then you go about and report it.

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

Ask me about my complete lack of interest. (T-shirt)

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible.

As the population is, in general, aging, there is more interest in what a 50-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 70-year-old, an 80-year-old is like. And one of the things that just naturally started to happen as I got older - and I could feel younger people looking up to me in a certain way and wanting to know things that I knew - I got interested in the women, in particular, who were 20 years older than me. Because I understand in a way that I didn't 20, 30 years ago, how much they know.

As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

At the end of the day, it's about the best interests of the children.

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.