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“Interestingly, we instinctively chase after pleasure believing it to be the source of sustainable happiness. Many of us spend most of our time and energy chasing pleasure, sometimes enjoying flow, and once in a while, we think about higher purpose. We should be doing the reverse. This is the most logical path towards sustainable happiness, at least in relation to our work.”
Source: Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
“Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they're African-American, whether they're white or whether they're Latino.”
“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“Interestingly, anger and lust are also elusive states once they have passed. Trying to recall why you were angry about something when you've calmed down is like trying to remember why you were in love with someone who no longer attracts you: the initial impulse triggering the emotion is impossible to recapture.”
“Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.”
“Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.”
“Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.”
“Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?”
“Interestingly, if you write preparation out of history, leadership and preparation, the building of confidence among people who are exploited, you've actually methodologically written out the Communists because, when an uprising takes place, you don't necessarily see red flags everywhere.”
“Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.”
“Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.”
Source: Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery
“Interestingly, many of the organizational characteristics that have been identified as conducive to effectively managing diversity and as conducive to fostering innovation and creativity in the workplace are also important for enabling employees to voice their values.”
“Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that the Vedic Aryans could have conceived of such a vast span of time over 3,500 years ago that would be similar to the same figure estimated by science today.”
“Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we went all the way up to an hour and forty-seven minutes. After that, I made some additional cuts and now we are where we are.”
“Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.”
“Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.”
“Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.”
“Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.”
“Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And teachers complained that “when are the children going to have time to play?” Well, they’re not supposed to play, because play is a right-brain, ad-lib, creative pursuit. The idiot politicians who are introducing it don’t understand this, but the shadow-people from which it is generated certainly do. They want to stimulate the left brain as early as possible.”
“Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.”
“Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.”
Source: The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver
“Interestingly, this character [Doctor Nash] is probably closer to me than somebody like the evil Sir Godfrey in Robin Hood or Lord Blackwood who wants to take over the world in Sherlock Holmes. This is a character that's English, he's based in London, and so it's closer to me than a lot of stuff I've been doing recently.”
“Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.”
“Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them... They would be the leaders and the peasant women would be the masses.”
“Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!"”
“Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.”
“Interestingness is the instigator, the hardy carrier pigeon that can carry your message most anywhere. Interestingness makes a message get heard above the noise. Money can't buy interestingness, yet vivid comparisons can create them. To make your self-label stick it must be more interesting than others' labels for you. The good news and the bad is that reputations can be ruined or lifted by how most anyone labels something or someone - as long the label is as vividly indelible as India ink. More than money, title or even good looks, your capacity to craft the most vivid characterization will make it bob, like a cork, to the top of the water of alternative messages. A janitor can become more famous and credible than a CEO. Use the "Compared to What?" cue to stick your label in other's minds, whether they intended to remember or not. Make your comparison:
• Spark a specific mental picture
• Evoke a positive emotion
• Be unexpected
• Be Brief”
Source: Mutuality Matters More Living a Happy, Meaningful and Satisfying Life With Others
“Interests are what drives the actions of individuals at some fundamental level. Furthermore interests are intensely social phenomena. Other individuals have to be taken into account when an actor attempts to realize her interests; there is also the fact that interests are socially defined.”
Source: Principles of Economic Sociology
“Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.”
“Interests that interfere with prayer and study time, or admiration of persons whose opinions we hold more dear than the Word of God, are all examples of idolatry in our everyday lives.”
Source: The Crime Of The Calf: An Exposition Of Exodus, Chapter 32, According To The Mysteries
“Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.”
“Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.”
Source: The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century
“Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine.”
“Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity.”
“Interfaith dialogue doesn't mean, 'come, let me tell you something about my faith.' Interfaith dialogue means, 'come, tell me something about your faith - I want to learn - I want to grow'.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.”
“Interfaith is faith supreme.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Interfaith Sonnet
Not every christian is a good human,
But every good human is a christian.
Not every muslim is a good human,
But every good human is a muslim.
Not every jew is a good human,
But every good human is a jew.
Not every hindu is a good human,
But every good human is a hindu.
Not every buddhist is a good human,
But every good human is a buddhist.
Not every humanist is a good human,
But every good human is a humanist.
Goodness is universal, vessels may vary.
Some call it water, some agua, some pani.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.”
Source: The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures
“Interference between universes at the quantum level means that information transfer takes place between them.”
Source: Paths to Otherwhere
“Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.”
Source: The Republic
“Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry is a sharp-eyed, engaging writer, and she deftly captures the terrors, ruptures and intimacies of one seemingly ordinary neighborhood, always finding a precarious beauty in her characters' lives. This is a book that is terrifying, startling, and very hard to put down.”
“Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.”
“Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar).”
“Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.”
“Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.”
“Intergenerational support is crucial. I feel like generations give up on each other. If you're Gen Z, you're like, "Gen X is never gonna get it." If you're Gen X, you're like, "Those Millennials are such idiots."”
“Intergrity is not only teh way one thinks but even moer the way one acts.”