Selfish Quotes - Page 39

• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  Irvine Welsh

  Trainspotting, Welsh, Concepts

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• You have to be selfish to be an actor.

  Charles Dance

  Selfishness, Actors, Being Selfish

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• The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Kings, Desire

  Ludwig van Beethoven (1905). “Beethoven, the man and the artist: as revealed in his own words”

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• What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.

  Thomas Merton

  Free Gifts, Perfection, Grace

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.

  Caroline Myss

  Can Do

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• Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Embrace, Profession

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Passion, Men

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Struggle, Teaching

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• On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

  Alan Thicke

  Sports, Enjoy, Bases

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• I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

  David Bowie

  Writing, Mean, Artist

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• The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

  Norma McCorvey

  Men, Greedy, Selfishness

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• It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Country, Past, Done

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• You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, School, Want

  Margaret Thatcher's speech to Conservative Party conference at Winter Gardens in Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 13, 1989.

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• The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Gay, Drunk

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.60, David C Cook

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• If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

  Ann Richards

  Inspiring, Responsibility, Thinking

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• When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely selfish reasons. It’s the human equivalent of a puppy dog’s face: an evolutionary tool designed to enhance survival, reproductive value and status. In short, liberalism is based on one central desire: to look cool in front of others in order to get love. Preaching tolerance makes you look cooler, than saying something like, 'please lower my taxes.'

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dog, Order, Tolerance

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• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  K. D. Lang

  Thinking, Ego, Important

  "I'm mistaken for a man every day". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2008.

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• We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Money, Children

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• My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

  Rufus Sewell

  Attitude, Son, Perspective

  "Rufus Sewell: 'Hollywood is my domestic idyll'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.

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• I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Evil, Temptation

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Men, Rights, Trying

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• I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Mind, Too Much, Drink

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• If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

  Phil Jones

  Political, Climate, Happens

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• Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

  Bill Crawford

  Caring, Care, Expenses

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• By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act -- it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Journey, Giving, Doubt

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

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