137 Personal Interest Quotes

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Famous Personal Interest Quotes

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill. — Carol Ann Tomlinson

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. — Barack Obama

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest. — Silvio Berlusconi

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. - Katharine Hepburn

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. — Katharine Hepburn

To really know if this is going to work, you need more than just interest, you need a transaction. — Pat Flynn

When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest. — Thucydides

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Become genuinely interested in other people. — Dale Carnegie

You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting. — Iris Apfel

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. — Susan Sontag

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own. — Brad Pitt

Today everything's a conflict of interest. — Sid Vicious

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. — Chanakya

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner. — Dale Carnegie

Short Personal Interest Quotes

  • Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. — Marc Chagall
  • One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. — E. M. Forster
  • Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested. — Tom Kite
  • My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. — Horace
  • One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. — John Stuart Mill
  • Aligning with other’s self-interest is easier than persuading them to do what you want. — Alex Hormozi
  • No man will work for your interests unless they are his. — David Seabury

Top 10 Personal Interest Quotes

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. — Saul Leiter

God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me. — Mother Angelica

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting. — Augusten Burroughs

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. — Neil Gaiman

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor. — Ronald Reagan

I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer. — Akira Toriyama

I'm always going to the toy store; I even have a room full of plastic models. — Akira Toriyama

If you look back at your life on your deathbed at all the interesting things you’ve done, they’re all going to be centered around the sacrifices you’ve made. — Naval Ravikant

I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests. — Donald Trump

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain. — Fran Lebowitz

Personal Interest Image Quotes

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. - Dave Barry quote

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. — Dave Barry

Personal interest quote Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

What Is Personal Quotes

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for — Al Capone

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. - Abraham Maslow

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. — Abraham Maslow

The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life. — Witness Lee

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan

Personal interest quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow. — Colin Powell

And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God. — Nipsey Hussle

...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means. — W. Edwards Deming

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

Personal interest quote Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.

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

Personal interest quote Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are...

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

Interesting Personalities Quotes

Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz

I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me about new Zoloft or Prozac and now I just take three pills a day and I blend right into this horrible inbred corporate landscape. — Doug Stanhope

The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own. — Harlan Lane

Personal interest quote Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having every
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you? — Tony Benn

I have no interest in bantering back and forth with someone who is the exact person that I am trying not to become, and stay away from, by degrading women, by going after my family, in a manner that is intended to harm. — Logan Paul

I originally started in natural bodybuilding because I was picked on a lot in high school and didn’t get much attention from girls. As I learned to love the process of lifting more and more I started becoming more interested in competing. — Layne Norton

Personal interest quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him. — Constantin Stanislavski

They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me. — Laura Prepon

I've always liked to draw. — Akira Toriyama

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves. — Luc De Clapiers

Person Of Interest Quotes

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist. — Chris Hardwick

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated. — Edith Hamilton

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests. — Sheryl Sandberg

Personal interest quote A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire. — Leland Stanford

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. — Ayn Rand

Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe. — Albert Einstein

Personal interest quote Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. — Walter Bagehot

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life. — Andy Samberg

In spite of being so absorbed in comics when I was in primary school, for whatever reason, I stopped reading them that much once I started junior high. — Akira Toriyama

Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste. — Norma Kamali

Personal Business Quotes

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates

If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent. — Dean Martin

Personal interest quote Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. — Ingvar Kamprad

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways. — Bill Gates

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing. — Thomas A. Edison

Personal interest quote Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.

The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me. — Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. — Gabriel Byrne

I’m not a busy person and I’m not busy because I refuse to schedule things. — Naval Ravikant

Personal Connection Quotes

I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird. — Matthew Healy

Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. — Sam Altman

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it. — Frank Iero

Personal interest quote Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!
Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!

The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence. — Gregory Bateson

If that person feels that you respect them, you honor them, you accept them, you will own them as long as you remain open. — Tony Robbins

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. — Steve Jobs

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success. — Paul J. Meyer

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur. — Peter Block

Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them. — Thom Yorke

Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word. — Eva Hesse

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More Personal Interest Quotes

Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion. — Brian Swimme

Once the fight-or-flight reaction gets triggered, the blood flows from our brain to our limbs, and our ability to think clearly diminishes. We forget our purpose and often act exactly contrary to our interests. When we react, we give away our power – our power to influence the other person constructively and to change the situation for the better. When we react, we are, in effect, saying no to our interests, no to ourselves. — William Ury

All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing. — Alicia Keys

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy. — Norman Vincent Peale

Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires. — Desiderius Erasmus

The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back to sanity and put the greater good ahead of self-interest. We need to fight very hard to create an environment out there that is more long term focussed and move away from short termism. — Paul Polman

Even at a large corporation, you’re essentially the only person who looks out for your own best interests. — Paul Jarvis

What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between. — Robert Motherwell

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. — George Bellows

I think that's where you get your inspiration from. Your favorite things that you love. — James Murray

The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate that illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence. — Robert Nozick

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