Quotes About Selfish

Selfish, arrogant people drive me crazy.

I work very hard, but I also really enjoy time with my family as well. So I take everything as it comes, but I really am very selfish about my family time.

People say I'm selfish. There might be some truth to that.

I was always pretty selfish.

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.

It can be seen as being quite selfish, but I'm very happy to be selfish.

At a certain time in your career you can't share your time with anyone else. You have to be completely selfish - so that you can write your music.

I've grown into that more aggressive, more selfish basketball at times.

I love players but I'm afraid it has become a selfish culture.

I wanted to experience college and to travel for my selfish reasons.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart—she was thinking of Stone.

this day's singular existence in time, the native field flourishing selfishly, only for itself.

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 want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for the big picture. It's totally selfish to run away like that.

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.

I must be very selfish, she thought, for I want to set nothing and no one right; all I want is to be left in peace to make what I can of this problem called life for myself and my children.

Even if Trump means well, his schemes tend to be blunt, selfish, and short-sighted rather than nuanced, empathetic, and thought through.

I think anyone who suffers from chronic pain can agree with this - you feel this great significance. What I wanted to capture was that significance, and as a matter of fact I think that's one of the lyrics on 'Conflict,' on the split. I touch on the significance, and really it's a selfish thing, in an offbeat way.

witches, such as Jadis, "are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical";

Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around the neck? A noose? What's 'morality' but what other people want you to do, for their own, selfish, unstated purposes?

The agent of economic theory is rational, selfish, and his tastes do not change.

The takers are the opposite. They are vampires who bring with them shadow. They suck from people. Drain energy from them. They seek sympathy, but are incapable of giving it. They wish to blame all their self-created ills on anyone they can pin them on, any excuse, any reason why they're not where they supposedly deserve to be. They bring the people around them down. Their wives, their children, their work colleagues, their communities. All they want is to take and never give.