You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. — Bernard Meltzer
People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner. — Dale Carnegie
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. — Dale Carnegie
You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting. — Iris Apfel
A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness — Dalai Lama
We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act. — Kehinde Wiley
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. — Dale Carnegie
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. — Henry Miller
Stop trying to be interesting and focus on being interested. You become interesting by being interested. — Sahil Bloom
Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself. — Kevin Eikenberry
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are. — Sam Walton
Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs. — Susan Polis Schutz
Short Interested Quotes
You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur. — David Chase
I drink to make other people more interesting. — Ernest Hemingway
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. — Saul Leiter
All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel. — Jo Nesbo
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. — Gianni Versace
I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new. — Ernst Haas
Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts. — Kris Saknussemm
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. — Julia Child
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. — William Ralph Inge
Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful. — Helen Mirren
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.
Interest In Others Life Quotes
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring. — Alfred Adler
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. — Pericles
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general. — Virginia Woolf
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits. — Pythagoras
The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and, as such, transcends every other interest in life. — Howard W. Hunter
The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone. — Michael Hyatt
If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you're interested.
For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money. — Ray Dalio
I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life. — Ben Affleck
I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right — Ray Dalio
I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting. — Hunter S. Thompson
Quotes Of Interest Quotes
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself. — Marcel Proust
[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist. — Nigel Dennis
I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting. — Clark Gable
You show you worth by what you seek.
Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.
Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb) — Richard Dawkins
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany. — Johannes Rau
I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood. — Jacqueline Wilson
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships. — Stanislaw Ulam
I just think adding superheroes to something instantly makes it more interesting. I have a friend who says every movie should either be a Spider-Man movie, or at least have Spider-Man in it. I thought it was such a brilliant quote. It kind of is true, in a weird way. — Mark Millar
It should never be the goal of U.S. foreign policy towards any country to have a - quote, unquote - "good relation." Then what? What do we get out of that? We get - Trump is helping the approval ratings amongst Russians. How does that advance American national security interests? — Michael McFaul
On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before. And it's a way of essentially saying, I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting. — Ethan Zuckerman
Concern For Others Quotes
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort
It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path. — Katharine Drexel
To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities. — Fred Hollows
Having a dirty mind makes ordinary conversations much more interesting.
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others. — Dalai Lama
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process. — Madeleine L'Engle
I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth. — John Wesley
I drink to make other people more interesting
Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person. — Mas Oyama
Good people help others with no concern for themselves. Smart people help others while also helping themselves. Evil people hurt others to help themselves. Dumb people hurt themselves and others. — Balaji Srinivasan
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other. — Millard Fuller
I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test. — Patricia Hewitt
Caring For Others Quotes
We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us. How we look after each other, not how we look after ourselves. That's all that really matters, I think. — Tommy Douglas
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again. — Bob Marley
No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings. — Urie Bronfenbrenner
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other. — Desmond Tutu
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others. — Nel Noddings
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. — Clara Barton
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. — Booker T. Washington
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way. — Timothy Keller
Awareness Of Others Quotes
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. — Louis XIV
Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready. — Laurel Clark
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. — Emily Post
When you have nothing to say - say nothing. It is the time to engage and get interested in others.
The Ukrainian nation, as no other nation, understands and is fully aware of the tragedy and its scale of all the lost lives of the Ukrainian Jews during the Second World War. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Everyone is critical of the flaws of others, but blind to their own. — Arabic Proverbs
Social media isn't about technology. It's about relationships. 3 things you can do today: 1. Spend 5 minutes getting interested in someone on social media, rather than trying to get them interested in you.2. Post it forward e.g. list three people whom you admire. 3. Network before you need your network.
The enemy of peace of mind is expectations drilled into you by society and other people. — Naval Ravikant
Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world. — Jason Schwartzman
The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become. — Ezra Taft Benson
You can't be Canadian without being aware of at least one other country, the United States, 'cause it's so important to us. I think we sometimes like to think that, you know, Americans will pay attention to us from time to time, too. — Justin Trudeau
Consideration For Others Quotes
The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary. — Gifford Pinchot
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. — A. A. Milne
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet. — Judith Martin
I always find beauty in things that are odd, imperfect - they are much more interesting.
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post
People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference. — Simon Baker
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate. — Saint Francis de Sales
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration — Abraham Lincoln
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. — Mortimer Adler
Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision. — Roger Angell
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Mahatma Gandhi
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people. — Dolores Huerta
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. — Booker T. Washington
Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life. — Cesar Chavez
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. — Barack Obama
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others. — Henri Nouwen
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. — Oprah Winfrey
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me. — Roland Barthes
I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times. — Charles de Lint
The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. — Dave Barry
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. — Madonna Ciccone
Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story. — James Dashner
Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress. — Stella Gibbons
Interesting fact: a shark will only attack you if you’re wet. — Sean Lock
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests. — David Duke
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. — David Attenborough
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. — Alexander Hamilton
I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. — Michel Foucault
No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways. — Srinivasa Ramanujan
Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself. — Kathryn Kuhlman
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars. — Mark Ruffalo
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. — Richard P. Feynman
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest. — John Glenn
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. — Adam Smith
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