Quotes with self-interest

Quotes 801 till 820 of 886.

  • Abraham H. Maslow What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 93.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Mark Twain What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Anita Brookner What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Epictetus What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Brian Tracy Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Brian P. Cleary When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • William Hazlitt When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carolyn Murphy When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Anita Desai When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Camilla Belle When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Ben Okri When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basis of interest-group pressures, anecdotes, and the emotions of the moment. The executive branch is hardly perfect, but it is far less likely to do that.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Burning Spear When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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