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The quickest way to become an interesting person is to show interest in others. -- Jarod Kintz
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There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend. -- Phil Callaway
Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others. -- Arlene Francis
Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation. -- Archibald Marwizi
I have no interest in doing anything other than good work. -- Andrea Riseborough
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. -- Stephen Kinzer
Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things. -- Hideo Kojima
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest. -- Jules Renard
My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot. -- Dan Brown
There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make. -- Amos Lee
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise. -- Robert Martin
Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick. -- Candace Bushnell
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities. -- Armstrong Williams
I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue. -- Alec Baldwin
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book. -- Emile Hirsch
All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA. -- Jonas Armstrong
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column. -- W. P. Kinsella
I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me. -- Patrick Roy
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. -- Emily Greene Balch
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. -- Warren E. Burger
I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan. -- Park Chan-wook
As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist. -- Harald zur Hausen
Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other. -- Leland Stanford
I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom. -- Joseph Hume
Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others. -- Benjamin Franklin
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be interested yourself, and you will interest others. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. -- Francis Beaumont
Advice from others is always filtered through self interest. -- James Cook
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. -- Emile M. Cioran
The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others. -- Dalai Lama
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies -- Fran Lebowitz
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies. -- Fran Lebowitz
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle. -- Benjamin Franklin
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. -- Tacitus
Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest! -- John C. Maxwell
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven. -- Laozi
Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking. -- Augusten Burroughs
Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you. -- Octave Mirbeau
I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others. -- Anne Lamott
When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest. -- Marcel Proust
America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious. -- Bashar al-Assad
The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone. -- Rand Paul
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. -- Theodor Adorno
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others. -- Mark Pagel
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences. -- Gary Becker
The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest. -- Anne Catherine Emmerich
Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others. -- Joseph Butler
Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan

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