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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.
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
flower home animal
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity. Albert Schweitzer
flowers people provide reasons
Self-sown flowers provide a lot of serendipity, which is one of the reasons people garden. When they come up, it's a delight. Renee Shepherd
flower garden roots
John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages. Charles Spurgeon
flower evil needs
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
flower rain wind
The flowers are ravined by bees, the fruit blossoms are thrown to the ground, the wind the rain forces everything. Charles Olson
flower mean effort
The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress. Elbert Hubbard
flower water tree
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants... Egon Schiele
flower sunshine grandchildren
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Edward Abbey
flower feet roots
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot. Ben Jonson
garden gardener grows knows proverbs
More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown.
garden grow organic tomatoes
I can't do as much as I used to, but I can still grow a little corn, tomatoes and some cucumbers in my organic garden out back. Thomas Hood
garden games childhood
At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played. Elizabeth Bowen
garden woods neglected
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot Dixie Lee Ray
garden roses
I have a garden of my own,/ But so with roses overgrown,/ And lilies, that you would it guess/ To be a little wilderness. Andrew Marvell
gardening love
I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. Blake Shelton
gardening green listening means shower
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
gardener patience spirit tenacity
The patience, the tenacity of the gardener for me, it's the spirit of Tessa. Ralph Fiennes
gardens
When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that. Brittany Howard