Interest Quotes · Page 109

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

— Confucius

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be…

— Rafael Nadal

I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as…

— Abbey Clancy

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

— Teresa Amabile

I'll just keep going till people get disinterested. It's what I was born to do and thankfully, people have shown an interest.…

— Doc Brown

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act…

— Geneen Roth

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be…

— Meryl Streep

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the…

— Rodrigo Rato

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and…

— Lee Friedlander

I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jewish people have put the interests of race over the interests of the American people… Jews are filled with more hatred and…

— David Duke

The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party…

— Howard Dean

The NFL is in premium interest time, in the fourth quarter [of the business year] when you have Thanksgiving, Christmas, and that's…

— Jerry Jones

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil,…

— Archibald MacLeish

We should be looking at putting a limit on the interest that can be charged on things like store cards.You don't want…

— George Osborne

This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance…

— John Bright

One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a…

— Stephen Fry

We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the…

— Chris Hedges

Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies…

— Lord Kelvin

Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering…

— Rumi

Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…

— Jared Diamond

I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit…

— Errol Flynn

If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of…

— Hugh Everett III

I love secrets. Here's a bunch of people who think they know each other over a long period of time. And they…

— Victoria Redel

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

— Alain de Botton

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

I don't get paid to serve the president. I get paid to serve the public and what I think is in the…

— Preet Bharara

I think people start rumors because it creates interest and it makes people look at things and become more interested in what…

— Keith Carradine

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

— Laurie David

Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

— James Tooley

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego…

— Graydon Carter

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

— John Flavel

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

— Kyle Chandler

A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21…

— Suze Orman

As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.

— Jazz Jennings

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

— Ben Horowitz

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

— David Lindsay-Abaire

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

— Alain Badiou

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but…

— James F. Cooper