Interest Quote by Laurence Olivier Download Open image “A man's prime interest in life must be his work.” — Laurence Olivier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interest Interest in life Life Man Prime Work
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest. — Benjamin Butler Copy Share Image
Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for… — Plato Copy Share Image
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
“[in 1979] You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it… — Drea De Matteo Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image