interest Quotes

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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“The requisites for board membership should be business savvy, interest in the job, and owner-orientation.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

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“Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.”

― Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War

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“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, The Wealth of Nations

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“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of anybody else. Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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“There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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