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“I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.”

Shows Seems Today Lasts Guy Passion Games Felt Interest Generations Groups Share My Generation

Author:Tim Henman

“All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.”

Heart Interest Ability Class Trade Pursue Boldness Secrecy Classes Of Society

Author:William Stanley Jevons

“It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.”

World Want Needs Children Ends Hard Interest Teaching Demand Tasks Rewards Satisfaction Accomplish Endeavor Meaningless Irrelevant Incentives Attending Libel

Author:Frank Smith

“If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Interest Saws Violence Stage Acceptance Exercise Universal Constitution Protected Continuing Likelihood Rallying

Author:Kofi Annan

“I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.”

Interest Evidence Holding On

Author:Jim Hodges

“Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.”

Has Beens Made War Names Interest Progress Materials Civilization Sacred Trade Connected

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.”

Needs Asks Interest Views Percent Currents Alternatives Therapy Abandoned Fewer Physicians Status Quo Personal Views

Author:David Eisenberg

“Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.”

Knows Lost Interest Study Alive

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.”

Whole Artist Interest Fields Perception Highest Details

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.”

May Art Said Eye Interest Lines Style Folks Myth Staring Features Mask Dynamics Nordic Folk Art

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.”

Mean Interest Tree Grass Branches Roof Leafs Blades Blades Of Grass Tiles Calligraphy

Author:Joan Miro

“Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic.”

Thinking Firsts Facts Interest Party Politician Iraq Islamic Activist Republic Saddam Better Off Hussein Flawed Dean Puzzled

Author:Robert Novak

“What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.”

Ifs Kind Interest Enemy Sacrifice Ready Morality Letting Go Ethics Behalf Involving

Author:George F. R. Ellis

“And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.”

Men May Art Made Said Government Law Nations Interest Cities Cases Modern Subjects Empires Prudence

Book:Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

Source: Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

“With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.”

Government Interest Effects Movement Rate Debt Boat Consumers Interest Rate Government Debt

Author:Bill Gross

“EMA research evidences strong and growing interest in leveraging log data across multiple infrastructure planning and operations management use cases. But to fully realize the potential complementary value of unstructured log data, it must be aligned and integrated with structured management data, and manual analysis must be replaced with automated approaches. By combining the RapidEngines capabilities with its existing solution, SevOne will be the first to truly integrate log data into an enterprise-class, carrier-grade performance management system.”

“I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.”

“We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen, it is certainly not in the interests of the country, not in the interests of the people.”

People Ifs Country Light Interest Adversity Decades Reform Therapy Drag Gleam

Author:Yevgeny Primakov

“The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.”

Ifs Firsts Doe Important Values Interest Share Policy Europe Endure Disagree Alliances

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.”

Given Interest Subjects Design Plenty Sufficient Construction Suitable

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.”

Humans Art Self Spirit Individual Interest Existence Communicate Visuals Human Spirit Self Interest Visual Art

Author:Dean Mitchell

“Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.”

People Way Writing Reading Interest Gone Happened Childhood Normal Universal Memoir Outrageous Threshold Weirdness

Author:Sara Nelson

“America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.”

Dream America Certain Culture Interest Democracy Personality Aspiration Clash Mobility

Author:David Brooks

“What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.”

“For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.”

Difficult Interest Pay Stage Discipline Boring Dedication

Author:Mirra Komarovsky

“It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate.”

Real Artist Interest Roles Encouragement Dear Narcissism Dear Friend

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.”

Said Father Grows Interest Growing Up Housewife

Author:Maria Goeppert-Mayer

“A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.”

Should Art Stories Beautiful Form Interest Fields Expression Paint Abstract Colour Works Of Art Illustration Expressive

Author:John F. Carlson

“It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.”

Art Artist Interest Ability Students Determine Differentiate Art Students

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.”

People Way Should Stories Jobs Interest Interesting Great Job

Author:Eli Pariser

“Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.”

Interest Perception Rate Financial Credit Cards Affected Division Investors Credit Card Interest Rate Financial Services

Author:David Dreman

“As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.”

Self Artist Growth Interest Change Embrace Profound Our Future Entity Governing Embrace Change

Author:Robert Genn

“Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.”

Men Interest Judgment Accounts Prejudice Sympathy Biased No Sympathy

Book:Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

Source: Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”

Men Two Moving Motivation Fear Interest Courage Human Nature Levers

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.”

Ifs Children Suffering Force Nations Interest Community Materials Involved Capacity Affair Welfare Destructive Enlightened Neglect Citizenship Protective

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.”

Long Important Would Be Term Interest Wealth Effects Negative Rate Spending Long Term Decline Interest Rate

Author:Joseph Barbera

“I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.”

Men Science Interest Natural Doors Students College Type Ambition Chiefs Frank Devoted My Ambition Wilson Natural History Good Students Hart

Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”

Thinking Persons Inspiration Joy Process Interest Greater Depth Bounds Positivity Excited Deeper Excitement Unhappiness Nests Monotony Dullness Excitement Of Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.”

Men Two Self Fighting Interest Rights Victory Harder Moved Mechanism Self Interest

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.”

Interest Natural Environment Resources Natural Resources

Book:Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912

Source: Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912

“I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.”

People Thinking May Interest Taken Special Subjects Produce Enlightenment Accounts Substance Reports Credibility Ufo Special Interests

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Happy Birthday to Fay Wray, a wonderful actress. She was, of course, in the movie 'King Kong' and would have been 99-years-old today. She was famous because of her love interest with a giant ape, and, wait a minute, that's Maria Shriver.”

Years Has Beens Today Courses Waiting Interest Wonderful Minutes Kings Actresses Giants Apes King Kong

Author:David Letterman

“While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.”

Littles Interest Natural Achievement Enjoyment Natural History

Book:Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails

Source: Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails

“The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.”

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India

“The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds from the U.S. Treasury...and has created out of nothing a ... debt which the American people are obliged to pay with interest.”

People Government Interest Pay Air Dollars Historical Debt Reserves Obliged Treasury Federal Reserve Thin Air

Author:Wright Patman

“These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.”

“Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.”

Ifs Mean Certain Girl Interest Poor Rich Arms Achievement Mark Links Sympathy That Girl Badges Mean Girls

Author:Juliette Gordon Low

“The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.”

Interest Interesting Class Minutes Dropping Connecting The Dots Dropping Out

Author:Steve Jobs

“It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.”

Shows Would Be Belief Interest Development Decided West East Awakening Mediums Wild West Wild Wild West

Book:Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography

Source: Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography

“Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.”

Long Running Interest Numbers Long Runs Standpoint

Author:Gifford Pinchot

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