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selfish tunnels tennis
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. Chris Evert
selfish media people
Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. Dennis Prager
selfish weak wish
For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance. Fred Funk
selfish halfway-there likes
We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be. Eddie Van Halen
selfish heart mind
What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with all the different things that grab our minds that aren't of eternal value, to let those tentacles wrap themselves around your heart. That's one of the reasons why we love going overseas. It helps us to break free of those things. We've been on all of these trips, but it's easy to slide back into the selfishness of life. That's what we find out about ourselves. Aaron Kampman
selfish heart joy
It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches. Alan Cohen
selfish love-you responsibility
It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility. Alan Cohen
selfish society truth
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. Phil McGraw
selfishness incentives laziness
Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity. Ludwig von Mises
human-nature socialism economics
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. Ludwig von Mises
human-nature conventions should
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Charles Dickens
human-nature lifeless permanent
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts
human-nature tendencies humans
Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify. Bill Maher
human-nature born unfortunate
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. David Hume
human-nature humans ups-and-downs
That's human nature - the ups and downs. Jami Gertz
human-nature multitudes
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so. Baltasar Gracian
human-nature cheat free-market
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market. Jane Smiley
critics five invite issue matter open
There are many critics who invite me on their show, and I have told them that when my film releases, you will give it one-and-a-half star rating. That's fine. There's no issue because stars will matter when I'm planning to open a five star hotel. When I'm making films, I don't need stars. Rohit Shetty
critics dressing dull feed taste
Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing Lord Chesterfield
critics liked series
My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one. Warren Littlefield
critics-and-criticism drama maybe york
Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics. Tennessee Williams
critics iraq jewish jews middle peace people president pushed saying turning war
Now you have an Iraq war that Americans are turning against, and you have people saying it's all a Jewish conspiracy. But look at President Clinton's team: You had many Jews who aggressively pushed for peace in the Middle East. But these same critics don't see this as part of the same conspiracy. Jack Rosen
critics looked simply
Critics should be looked at simply as commentators. Twyla Tharp
critics hear star talked watched york
New York critics - I hear when one of them watched A Star Is Born, he talked back to the screen. Barbra Streisand
critics drawer file labeled mistake regularly serious since
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. Kurt Vonnegut
critics historical lived people
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn't just what you can see now. Per Petterson