Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

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

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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

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

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.