Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Evert

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.

Dennis Prager

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.

Fred Funk

For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance.

Eddie Van Halen

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.

Aaron Kampman

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.

Alan Cohen

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

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

Phil McGraw

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Ludwig von Mises

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.

Max Brooks

The highest distinction is service to others.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

Henri Nouwen

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

Peggy Kennelly

Like any large city, they're interested in reducing their traffic and improving their environment. People are changing their behavior.

Alice Bisno

Many of these laws are designed to improve safety for motorists by increasing penalties for unsafe driving behavior.

Jean Peterson

Many are intense, sensitive and stressed by their own and others' high expectations and their ability, interests and behavior may make them vulnerable.

Jacques Chirac

Serb authorities have had an unacceptable behavior for too long with regard to the Kosovo Albanians.

David Lereah

Modeling a relationship between economic and commercial market indicators, as well as market trends and sentiment, will provide us with a new tool in assessing market behavior in the major commercial real estate sectors. It is being designed as an index to provide early signals of turning points between expansions and slowdowns in commercial real estate activity.

Christopher Durang

One of my impulses in writing is to take people's crazy behavior and try to make order of what sometimes feels chaotic in the past.

Stephen Hadley

Obviously, we didn't have the intelligence we needed in that particular instance. In some sense, those countries that pursue weapons of mass destruction in secret also learned an important lesson - that there are risks of that kind of behavior and that kind of activity.

Ian Grossman

Now we recognize we need to spend more time on driver-behavior safety programs. Driver performance is playing a far greater role in contributing to crashes.

Dick Van Dyke

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.