Interests Quotes

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.

~ Marty Rubin

When we make ethical judgments, we must go beyond a personal or sectional point of view and take into account the interests of all those affected, unless we have sound ethical grounds for doing otherwise. This means that we weigh interests, considered simply as interests and not as my interests, or the interests of people of European descent, or of people with IQs higher than 100. This provides us with a basic principle of equality: the principle of equal consideration of interests. The essence of the principle of equal consideration of interests is that we give equal weight in our moral deliberations to the like interests of all those affected by our actions. This means that if only X and Y would be affected by a possible act, and if X stands to lose more than Y stands to gain, it is better not to do the act. We cannot, if we accept the principle of equal consideration of interests, say that doing the act is better, despite the facts described, because we are more concerned about Y than we are about X. What the principle really amounts to is: an interest is an interest, whoever's interest it may be.

~ Peter Singer

Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality, he just never connected with you at the intersection.

~ Criss Jami

Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.

~ Steven Johnson

If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

The public good must come before private interests.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

~ Richard Courant

What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.

~ Christina Engela

What I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes. What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

~ J.d. Sallinger

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

~ George William Norris