Interest Quotes - Page 29

• Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

  Paul Wellstone

  Successful, Self, Purpose

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• People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

  Jonathan Ive

  People, Design, Authorship

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• Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

  Florian Znaniecki

  Teacher, Students, Descent

  William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, Eli Zaretsky (1996). “The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A Classic Work in Immigration History”, p.132, University of Illinois Press

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• I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Writing, Trying, Dangerous

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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, Persons, One Thing

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• I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

  Barbara Feldon

  Men, Hands, Challenges

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• If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Practice, Play

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• The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war of interests in human society is only a feeble picture of an unceasing and terrible war of existence which reigns throughout the whole of the living world.

  Ernst Haeckel

  War, World, Reign

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• I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

  George J. Mitchell

  Sports, Brother, Athlete

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• I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

  George J. Mitchell

  Jobs, Couple, Years

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• The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

  Henri Michaux

  Bird, Tree, Doe

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• Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know dont care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science-that it has made it possible for people not to be religious.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, Thinking

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• Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

  Andrew Marr

  Girl, Fashion, Hair

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• The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

  Major Owens

  Self, People, Competition

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• True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

  Asger Jorn

  Lying, Expression, Faithful

  "Aftermath France, 1945-54 : New Images of Man : An Exhibition" by Germain Viatte, Sarah Wilson, (p. 107), 1982.

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• Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.

  James Connolly

  Destiny, Self, Independence

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.34, Pluto Press

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• Trust your father. He is not perfect, but he loves you and would never do anything he didn't think was in your best interest. So talk to him. Share your thoughts and feelings, your dreams and your fears. The more he knows about your life, the better chance he has to understand your concerns and to give you good counsel.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Dream, Father, Love You

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• The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Environment, Rich

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• It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)

  Pearl Cleage

  Home, School, America

  Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

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• Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Designer, Program, Transparent

  "A Digital Contrarian Retires" by Beat Gerber, www.modulaware.com. March 1999.

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• I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

  Norman Spinrad

  Believe, Hero, Firefighter

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• If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

  Michael Schenker

  Sweet, Rip, People

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• When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

  Christian D. Larson

  Mistake, Giving, Desire

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.393, Penguin

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• Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Law, Crime, Individual

  "Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America". Book by David Hackett Fischer, 2008.

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• Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

  Richard V. Allen

  Office, Ships, January

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