“Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.” MayHelpingInterestWorkSourceElementsAspectWorkersFactorsRejectionThrownHolidayRetirementBondageIntegratingScrapDrudgery Book:La vieillesse Source: La vieillesse
“Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.” InterestSourceDiseaseElementsWineShopsEnmityWorkmen Author:Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert
“We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.” IfsWayLooksHelpingProblemSufferingInterestReligiousCompassionTeachSourceTraditionOvercomingVariousToleranceArisePursueSelfishnessContentmentExpensesLove And CompassionCultivatingReligious Traditions Author:Dalai Lama
“Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. So automatically you're getting closer to potentially divine sources of interest because it is abstract. It's one of the only ways that a film actor can express himself in the abstract and have audiences still go along for the ride. They don't contend it. They accept it, that they're going to go places that are a bit more of the imagination, a bit more out there, and that's more and more where I like to dance.” PeopleWayMindWellsStillsBigsFilmActorsAsksBitsInterestImaginationFictionAcceptingAudienceImpossibleDivineSourceRootsIntelligentScience FictionAbstractBig QuestionsAlong For The RideFilm ActorsGood Science Author:Nicolas Cage
“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.” WorldSeemsInterestNatureNaturalBeautyEnvironmentSourceIntellectualEnvironmentalExcitementVisualsNatural WorldWorth LivingEarth DayNatural EnvironmentNature And EnvironmentLife Worth LivingEarth And NatureBeautiful EarthWorld Earth Day Author:David Attenborough
“How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest” ChildrenMatterUseInterestInformationSourceDevelopingStableAccurateDiverseEfficacySelf Efficacy Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.” IdeasWishInterestCreativeStrangeSourceMoralityReputationAgencyCreative PowerLeonardo Book:Leonardo da Vinci Source: Leonardo da Vinci
“Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.” PeopleSidesInterestCompanySourceInclinationOpen Source Author:Linus Torvalds
“Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."” DifferentWholeIndividualTermInterestProgressSecurityPolicySourceInnovationDiscussionAccountabilitySoftwareVocabularyDiscussingPublic PolicyCalculusDevelopersPublic InterestOpen Source Author:Evgeny Morozov
“When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.” InterestSourceMathematicsRateCeaseBranchesSpecialistsParalysis Author:Andre Weil
“A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.” MenTwoInterestSourceAbandonAbandonedSource Of Happiness Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna
“There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.” Has BeensTwoBigsAbleLastsThreeInterestDemocracyDoubtSpecialSourceCrowdsDecadesMeaningfulReformNo DoubtPassagesSpecial InterestsDemocracies HavePublic InterestAmerican DemocracyHacked Author:Al Gore
“I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.” KnowsMeanInterestCommonSourceGardeningExceedLifelongNew FriendsCommon InterestsMaking New Friends Author:Allen Lacy
“In the nearer term, the likeliest source of risk is a conflict between China and the U.S. These are now the two largest economies in the world, and the combination of their economic interdependence, the sharp differences in their political and economic values, and the growing divergence in their interests makes this relationship potentially dangerous for everyone who might be affected by it - which means pretty much everyone.” WorldMeanTwoMightPoliticalValuesTermInterestDifferencesEconomyGrowingRiskEconomicDangerousSourceConflictChinaCombinationAffectedInterdependenceDivergenceEconomic Value Author:Ian Bremmer
“There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance.” KnowsBookInterestIgnoranceSourceShelvesLeading MeNew Places Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.” YearsKindLittlesReasonGovernmentInterestSimpleFailingSourceCostWasteBenefitsProjectsTestsVotePressureCourtHeavyCampaignsSupremeOptimisticPrimariesContributionSupreme CourtLegislatorsBeing OptimisticContributorsPrimary SourceCampaign Contributions Author:Robert H. Frank
“I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor countries). This is because they are the source of the profits which make capitalism what it is. They can shut the system down, and at the same time they possess the unique knowledge needed to make it work in everyone's interests.” BelieveStillsCountryForceInterestPoorSourceNeededUniqueCapitalismDown AndWorkersProfitOrganizePeasantsI Still BelievePoor Countries Author:Michael Yates
“Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.” WantBookEnoughPhilosophyEyeLiteratureInterestMy OwnFictionSourceHistoricalMy FavoriteTheologyContemporaryPrimariesGenreRelevantEssaysAntiquityOld BooksGenre IsPrimary Source Author:Marilynne Robinson