#selfish

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#fairly #felt #i #kids #know

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#convinced #generous #had #i #i am

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#always #bulk #chores #doing #even

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #group #individual #members #mix

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.' ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#become #business #business world #create #different

I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#crazy #find #fun #i #most

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#ceases #grave #itself #laugh #other

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#friends #go #go away #good #gotten

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. ↗

— Graham Greene

#egotism #either #else #evil #happy

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

#better #doing #else #even #halfway