Interests Quotes

In any government, interests precede truth.

~ Toba Beta

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.

~ Suzy Kassem

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

~ Cameron Conaway

A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.

~ Nick Hornby

When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Let’s watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole interests are soaring targets at high-speed, at all costs and without any consideration. Perceptive understanding may help us discover the hidden actualities behind the ‘appearances’. .(Mama. Meine Bäume wachsen bis in den Himmel)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.

~ Steven Magee

...Politics is an activity in which you recognize the simultaneous existence of different groups, interests and opinions. You try to find some way to balance or reconcile or compromise those interests, or at least a majority of them. You follow a set of rules, enshrined in a constitution or in custom, to help you reach these compromises in a way everybody considers legitimate.The downside of politics is that people never really get everything they want. It’s messy, limited and no issue is ever really settled. Politics is a muddled activity in which people have to recognize restraints and settle for less than they want. Disappointment is normal.But that’s sort of the beauty of politics, too. It involves an endless conversation in which we learn about other people and see things from their vantage point and try to balance their needs against our own. Plus, it’s better than the alternative: rule by some authoritarian tyrant who tries to govern by clobbering everyone in his way....

~ David Brooks

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age.

~ B.f. Skinner

If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

~ Nicholas Sparks

What you feed in yourself that grows.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts and minds? We go to Nature for comfort in trouble, and sympathy in joy, only in books. Admiration of those beauties of the inanimate world, which modern poetry so largely and so eloquently describes, is not, even in the best of us, one of the original instincts of our nature.

~ Wilkie Collins

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?

~ Simon Cheshire

...interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and inefficient. This is because you can't really predict with certainty what will capture your attention and what won't...Without experimenting, you can't figure out which interests will stick, and which won't.

~ Angela Duckworth

Your present interests are not a solid basis of a career decisions. So, stop following your passion and Do What Is Valuable.!

~ Moutasem Algharati

So many interests compete for our young people, from drug baronsto sex traffickers who are constantly looking for ways to revive their ageing workforce

~ Oche Otorkpa

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

~ Amit Kalantri

As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby.

~ Amit Kalantri

Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I’m interested in creating in some way or another, whether it’s photography or writing or just walking through the world.

~ Alejandro Escovedo

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.

~ Willis R. Whitney

One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.

~ John Stuart Mill

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

~ Peter Marshall

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in what I have to say; I have to be interested in what you have to say. This is an important reason why people with conventional interests seem more socially intelligent. Even if they don't check whether their audience cares, it probably does.

~ Bryan Caplan

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.

~ Sara Sheridan

Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.

~ Oswald Chambers

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

~ Criss Jami

Follow your passion; Do not get married to it, though.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

When you strip away all the layers one by one, not much remains to “discover.” You will never find real meaning among your selfish interests, feelings, and aspirations. The answers do not lie within you.

~ James C. Dobson

Let me learn your interests and share them, tell me of your hopes and together we will attain them, and desire for nothing because as long as you're mine, if you should call forth the stars, I'll bring them down to you.

~ Christi Caldwell

Understanding” may become “misunderstanding”, if no commitment or no responsibilities are assumed, no specific objectives set, no definite expectations met and common values and interests no longer shared. Mutual understanding may then, against all odds, end up in heartache, confusion and bewilderment. (Mutual understanding )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our vision. The lessons we learn through habits of action test our understanding and teach us to identify what matters in our life.

~ Marian Deegan

When we make a habit of acting on the interests arising out of our authentic passions, our enthusiasm can open doors before we even realize the potential that lies beyond them.

~ Marian Deegan

Better or worse, we are living such a fallacious world, where people like to seek their own interests in in others' matters.

~ M.h. Rakib

It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.

~ Christina Engela