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.
What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.
I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.
When I am generous, I enjoy blessings that far exceed whatever selfish pleasure I can grab for myself.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.
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.
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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 change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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?
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.
Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
