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

Quotes by Yanis Varoufakis

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

Quotes by Wilt Chamberlain

I think I just gotta get more selfish.

Quotes by Willie Cauley-Stein

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Quotes by William Cowper

I'm trying to do music which inspires the desire to transcend politics, which has a limited and selfish and egoist and unknowledgable end about what anyone knows about existence.

Quotes by Wayne Shorter

A lot of folks would say that if I had been a little more selfish with my bat, I would have had a much bigger average. But that doesn’t worry me.

Quotes by Viv Richards

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.

Quotes by Vince Staples

My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.

Quotes by Victoria Aveyard

It's true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.

Quotes by Victoria Azarenka

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

Quotes by Tyson Gay

If we are ever going to rescue our nation from selfish entitlement, political correctness, and collectivism, we must start sending citizen-statesman warriors to fight for us in Washington, and I believe Col. Maness will do just that.

Quotes by Tim Kennedy

There is no room for selfish behaviour at Bayern.

Quotes by Thomas Muller

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.

Quotes by Tarana Burke

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

Quotes by Tariq Ali

When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.

Quotes by Tamara Ecclestone

I can't stand Tiger Woods. He is the most selfish man I've ever played golf with.

Quotes by Stewart Rahr

No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.

Quotes by Steve Young

Our true passions are selfish.

Quotes by Stendhal

We will not go out there and make negative music for selfish gain.

Quotes by Sonny Sandoval

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.

Quotes by Shervin Pishevar

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.

Quotes by Sherman Alexie

It's amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I'm a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.

Quotes by Scott Foley

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

Quotes by Sarah Brightman

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

Quotes by Samuel Freeman Miller

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

Quotes by Sadhu Vaswani

Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

Quotes by Sabine Baring-Gould

The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.

Quotes by Ryan Holiday

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Quotes by Russell M. Nelson

My first responsibility is to be selfish for New Jersey.

Quotes by Rodney Frelinghuysen

The last thing in the world I want to do is marry. I am too selfish, but I won't elaborate on that.

Quotes by Roddy Llewellyn

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Quotes by Richard Whately

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

Quotes by Richard Pryor

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Quotes by Richard Dawkins

My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

Quotes by Ricardo Antonio Chavira

I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.

Quotes by Rex Orange County

We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.

Quotes by Renato Dulbecco

I suppose I've been selfish in the past and put my career first. But priorities change.

Quotes by Ray Fearon

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Quotes by Ralph Steadman

I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.

Quotes by Raekwon

If my role requires a certain kind of dialect, which I think I am not confident enough to do, I'd prefer a dubbing artist then. There shouldn't be a selfish motive, and it's always better to have a certain understanding between the director/producer and the actress.

Quotes by Radhika Pandit

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Quotes by Pope Francis

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

Quotes by PnB Rock

I can give you a 'Selfish,' and I can still come give you, like, a 'Jealous.' I'm coming from the streets, but I can still give you personal situations and relationships that I've been in with females. You just never know; I'm just coming different.

Quotes by PnB Rock

When somebody's calling you 'Mommy,' it's a wonderful thing. But also to have that responsibility and to know that you and your partner have this little thing that's totally relying on you - and it made me, I suppose, less selfish. Not that I was mega-selfish to start with, but it's lovely having that responsibility. It's scary.

Quotes by Phyllis Logan

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.

Quotes by Phil Elverum

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

Quotes by Peter Sotos

I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.

Quotes by Pau Gasol

I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.

Quotes by Pablo Sandoval

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

Quotes by Norma McCorvey

I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

Quotes by Natasha Richardson

I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.

Quotes by Nadya Suleman

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.

Quotes by Mortimer Adler

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Quotes by Mortimer Adler

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.

Quotes by Morarji Desai

I'm so blessed, and Jessica just does such an incredible job of making everything work, because this is such a selfish profession with the time commitment.

Quotes by Mike McCarthy

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Quotes by Mike Leigh

Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.

Quotes by Mike Barnicle

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.

Quotes by Mick Jagger

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Quotes by Michael Jordan

I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.

Quotes by Mesut Ozil

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

Quotes by Melanie Roach

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.

Quotes by Melanie Roach

I'm very independent, probably quite selfish, and like being able to disappear at the drop of a hat without having to explain myself - most men would find that a pain, wouldn't they?

Quotes by Maxine Peake

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.

Quotes by Max Minghella

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

Quotes by MaryJanice Davidson

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

Quotes by Maria Bello

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

Quotes by Manny Machado

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

Quotes by Mahathir Mohamad

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

Quotes by Leland Stanford

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

Quotes by Lee Strobel

Gu Jun Pyo and Kim Tan were both brought up in wealthy backgrounds, and Gu Jun Pyo is a selfish guy who only cares about himself. However, Kim Tan is a totally different person.

Quotes by Lee Min-ho

I am a very selfish person.

Quotes by Lara Flynn Boyle

Like everybody else, I am naturally selfish, and so I'm going to think about myself.

Quotes by Kirk Cousins

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.

Quotes by Katie Melua

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.

Quotes by Katie Holmes

Of course, I could try IVF. But having watched my friend TV presenter Clare Nasir go through it, I know how tough the journey is. Emotional fool I may be, but even I can see that's too selfish a course of action to impose on my family.

Quotes by Kate Garraway

As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.

Quotes by Katarina Johnson-Thompson

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.

Quotes by K. D. Lang

I'm not a selfish guy, I'm not a stats guy.

Quotes by Julio Jones

In the past, I've been a selfish player. I'll definitely admit that.

Quotes by Josh Gordon

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

Quotes by Jose Mourinho

A selfish man is a thief.

Quotes by Jose Marti

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.

Quotes by Jonathan Haidt

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Quotes by John Henry Newman

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.

Quotes by Jo Nesbo

It occurred to me that actors are selfish, and they think that the world revolves around them. For one year, I quit, and I went to an ashram in Bihar and went to Himalayas backpacking.

Quotes by Jim Sarbh

As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.

Quotes by Jill Greenberg

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

Quotes by Jessica Capshaw

When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.

Quotes by Jenson Button

To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.

Quotes by Jennifer Grant

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

Quotes by Javier Bardem

Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.

Quotes by Jason Day

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

Quotes by Janos Kadar

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Quotes by Janos Kadar

Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child?

Quotes by Jane Fallon

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen

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!

Quotes by James McAvoy

As we grow up and we're developing, our ego needs to be contained, otherwise we'd all be selfish two- and three-year-olds, screaming every time we didn't get our way.

Quotes by J. J. Redick

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