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Selfish Quotes

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

Action Selfish Motivation Up Take

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

Music Yourself Me Selfish Problem

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game Selfish Games Players Analyze

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.

Tea Selfish Think Understanding

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Man Selfish Differences Infinite

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

Rose World Selfish Fairy Giant

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Selfish Aim Will Experiment Fail

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.

Time Selfish Short You Evolution

For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.

Mahathir Mohamad

Sleep Me Selfish Think Go Want

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Happiness Suffering Evil Selfish

A lot of comedians are selfish.

Selfish Comedians Lot

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

Pet Selfish Think Play Kind I Think

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Florence Nightingale

Selfish Lazy More Martyr Rather

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Imagination Selfish Want Escape Our

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

Selfish Will Never Difference Being

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

Wilt Chamberlain

People Selfish View You Go Out

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Barbara Cartland

Good Marriage Women Woman Selfish

Frankly, Indian women inherit this collective cultural unconscious - this sense of guilt, shame, and dishonour. I think Indian girls need to become shameless and a little selfish, too.

Women Selfish Think Guilt Become

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.

Shervin Pishevar

Love Live Day Selfish End Connected

I'm very grateful for what I have. I'm old enough that I can mort out at any minute without any sense of regret at all. That's not true. I might look back and think I wish I hadn't been so selfish when my kids were smaller. But I'm not overwhelmed by regret.

Grateful Selfish Regret Think Wish

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

Man Selfish Greedy He Very Worked

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

Richard Dawkins

Chance Selfish Upset Understand Own

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.

Good People Selfish Goodness Living

I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.

Man Selfish Pig Little

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