When women say no, they are immediately seen as selfish and not team players.
I’m pretty selfish, I think. I’m probably a terrible dad. I don’t do too much with my kids. Obviously I love them and everything, but I just stay here in the studio all day.
Maybe you’re a little selfish that day; maybe you want something, and it can’t happen, but you don’t want to take no for an answer. Everybody has those moments, and you just have to be okay with being open and showing it.
The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We’re all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.
You can be selfish by being too unselfish at times.
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
If you’re competing right, if you’re doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
I love players but I’m afraid it has become a selfish culture.
If he doesn’t follow through with actions, he’s either selfish or a liar. Neither makes him sound like The One, does it?
I didn’t breast-feed. I’m selfish.
You can’t be 100 percent selfish when you’re working with somebody else.
We’re often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there’s a God – and I believe there is – that God is there to help. That’s what God’s job is.
I used to think you had to be very selfish, but as I get older my views on life change.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
I’m not too selfish or unselfish.
But I do think I’m quite a selfish performer in the sense that I’m not one of those that’s like ‘Hey, come on everybody lets sing along’ you know that kind of thing.
To be honest, I think I’d become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.
There is no room for selfish behaviour at Bayern.
I cannot accept this country being destroyed by selfish people who only think about themselves.
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.
I know you only get one chance to make a first impression in a city – and I was so disappointed in myself for how that first season in New York had gone. It felt like a blown opportunity. It felt like I’d cemented my reputation in the opposite way that I’d wanted to. Selfish. Not a leader. Not a winning player.
The intent of Slayer’s musical and lyrical content has always been selfish. We feel very strongly about the importance of staying true to ourselves.
I worry sometimes that I’m a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that’s dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.
At the end of the day, I live in Silicon Valley and L.A., and for selfish reasons, I’d love to have Los Angeles and San Francisco connected with the Hyperloop.
I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.
I’m a good uncle, but I’m not a great caretaker. I feel oftentimes pretty selfish within the relationships I have with my siblings and, historically, with what I give back versus what I’ve taken over the years.
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
Why would we want to do an experimental album? That’s just selfish.
Men tend to be selfish.
My first responsibility is to be selfish for New Jersey.
I think what’s most fun is playing someone who’s sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there’s this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn’t want to sacrifice the ladies!
You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.
I mean, people aren’t continuing like this and not doing anything because they are evil, or because they don’t want to. We aren’t destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware.
Most female artists – to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment – you can’t compromise, really.
I love Michael Bay movies. I don’t think I’d be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don’t believe in, and you’re doing it for a selfish purpose.
For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we’re also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.
The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that’s something I picked up from home.
I’ve never been a selfish player. I’ve never been able to just say I am going as well. I’ve always thought about the team first.
The Franco-German tandem at the core of post-war European integration has become lopsided. Relations between Berlin and Paris are unusually poor, with some French politicians decrying the ‘selfish intransigence’ in the euro crisis of Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel.
My best friends always say to me, ‘Think about yourself first,’ and tell me to be more selfish. But I’m not like that. I am a professional. I am of service to the club and to the manager.
I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, ‘Look, I have a comfortable life,’ and I… just think about myself, I don’t think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.
Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it’s a team game, it’s not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities – they work hard, they’re selfless, they put the team before them – I have no issues with them.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
There are times where you have to be selfish.
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can’t be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
A selfish man is a thief.
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
In a way, I’m overly ambitious, selfish in a way. I think because I am so active, I think that’s what keeps my brain going and I can bounce things off of each other.
I couldn’t carry on straight after doing ‘Mother,’ it was really hard. Getting my anger out was a catharsis but it was also selfish and indulgent.
It’s a dream when some people think that once you give your life to God, all of a sudden things are perfect. That’s not the case. We live in a world that’s broken, where there’s disease, where people are selfish. The foundation of your faith helps you know how to put that in proper perspective.
I was given such a great gift. It’s a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I’ll be. I just want to be a better man.
I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I’m getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, ‘Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.’
