Interest In Others Quotes

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, People, Faults

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• To be agreeable, all that is necessary is to take an interest in other persons and in other things, to recognize that other people as a rule are much like one's self, and thankfully to admit that diversity is a glorious feature of life.

  Frank Arthur Swinnerton

  Self, Diversity, People

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• Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

  Arlene Francis

  Thinking, Self, Might

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

  Phil Callaway

  Friendship, True Friend, Quality

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

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Natural, Substitutes

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.260, Discovery House

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• Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried more weight if it came from a prison governor. (My friend John O'Sullivan puts it like this: If the pope says he believes in God, he's only doing his job; if he says he doesn't believe in God, he may be on to something.)

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jobs, Believe, Punishment

  "What Sharon Did" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. January 5, 2006.

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• Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

  A. A. Gill

  Lying, Book, Kids

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• Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Responsibility, Self, Discipline

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social events, we simply do not listen to others. We do not ask them questions about themselves, we do not nod attentively when they speak; really, if we were to examine ourselves, we would realize that we simply have no interest in others at all.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  People, Hurtful, Way

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• Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Country, Strong, Should Have

  "I Remain Fascinated by Memory". Interview with Michael Scott Moore and Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. October 5, 2005.

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• People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, Jobs, Eggs

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• Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

  Candace Bushnell

  People, Stories, Remember

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• History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Country, World, Way

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• Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Doctors, Office

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2010). “Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the basic thing is human character, which is the main thing of most writers.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Character, Writing, Thinking

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• When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Melancholy, Interest, Persons

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• Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….

  Pope John Paul II

  Responsibility, Catholic, Doe

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• Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, People, Limitless

  Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.33, Random House

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• What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.

  Annie Proulx

  Stupid, Writing, Self

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• ...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Clever, Smart, Knitting

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• Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Philosophical, Ignorance

  Aldous Huxley (1969). “Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley”

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