Quotes with self-interest

Quotes 301 till 320 of 886.

  • Busy Philipps If I see myself on a worst-dressed list - and I've been on many of them - I tend to have low self esteem for 24 hours. I just like to feel comfortable, and I like being excited about whatever it is I'm wearing. I hate subjecting myself to that kind of criticism!
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Aaron Eckhart If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Ann Oakley If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ramana Maharshi If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.
    Ramana Maharshi
    Indian Hindu mystic and guru (1879 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Hybels If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bernard Williams If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Bell Hooks If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Carl Bernstein If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Cardozo If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it, from experience and study and reflection; in brief, from life itself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • George Sheehan If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
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  • Brian Tracy If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Caitlin Flanagan If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Napoleon Hill If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Mohsin Hamid If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Arthur Keith In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Bjork In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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