No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.
I’ve grown into that more aggressive, more selfish basketball at times.
Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me – I was the accident – so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I’m a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.
The worst thing people ever say is that ‘I can’t afford to have kids!’ It’s selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can’t do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can – you find the money, you’ve just got to work harder for it.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.
You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it’s going to come back to you.
I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.
I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.
I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I’m doing is not good.
‘Wild Hope’ just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.
Since the 70s and the 80s you see the rise of neoliberalism. The central dogma of neoliberalism was that most people are selfish. So, we started designing our institutions around that idea, our schools, our workplaces, our democracies. The government became less and less important.
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
The abortionist I worked for, he’s a very greedy man, a selfish man.
Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.
I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song ‘Selfish.’
Being single isn’t all that bad, as you can be selfish and focus on yourself and your career.
Rocknroll is a selfish business because youre always thinking about the tour, the show, promotion and writing new albums. Your head is somewhere else, but Ive learnt to not let it be all-consuming. You want time with your family.
He was my hero, though it was probably for the wrong reasons. Because he could hit people harder than anyone else, and things like that. It’s only recently I’ve come to understand how selfish he could be, how hard on his children.
It sounds so incredibly selfish, but you just can’t earn the same money doing theater as you can doing television and film. I know that’s awful, but you get a mortgage and a family, and suddenly, paying that seems quite important.
I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extremely selfish and cocky, and I thought: ‘Hey, if I like it, everyone’s gonna like it.’ Well, it came to fruition, and I chose a character that was not a far departure from myself at all.
People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
It’s good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
It’s true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.
I’m not a selfish guy.
Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly… There were two women, I won’t name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.
I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.
There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren’t competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We’re all of these things. We’re complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.
I’ve dated athletes before but it’s too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.
I’m an actor because I love acting, and my romance with this craft called acting is too intense. I’m in this business for a very selfish reason, and that is me, and nobody else. The audience loving it is by chance.
The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there’s no way that’s going to happen while I’m still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you’re away from home for long periods. That’s not the kind of father I want to be.
I’m trying so hard to win or make the right play or whatever, that you know, it kind of comes off as being selfish, but I’m not, I’m just used to being the guy.
Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don’t care about anything as much as you do them.
I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I’m more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it’s the most important thing. If you’re kind, you’ll go a long way.
Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I’m very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.
From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people’s good.
Even Cristiano Ronaldo has developed from a selfish goalscorer into someone who likes to pass the ball.
An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he’s not true to his own art.
My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
We make music for a living. Like I’ve always said, if you like what you’re doing, you’re halfway there; if someone else likes it, that’s even better. If they don’t like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
Fighting, you have to be selfish.
I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote ‘In Contempt’ was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.
The better I am, the better the team is, so you should want me to be selfish about how good I am.
It’s amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I’m a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.
It’s very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, ‘This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.’ And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.
Attackers have to be selfish on the pitch occasionally, but it’s important not to exaggerate.
I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.
I was always pretty selfish.
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.
I am very selfish when it comes to choosing a film. There is no strategy as such; I take up anything that gives me a kick.
Going into a new environment with new coaches posed the question as to how well I actually know my own game. To have these big names asking what I want from them, and what makes me tick, showed me how selfish you have to be with your practice.
The one thing I’ve learned about this sport is that it’s OK to be selfish at times.
I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.
It would be selfish to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe.
Whenever I release a record, it’s my record. It’s not a selfish thought. I may work all year ’round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.
Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.
Because of my age and because there’s more work on the small screen. What it’s missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor’s selfish point of view.
