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Self-interest
«I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.»
«The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had.»
«The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.»
Author: Margot Fonteyn
(Dancer)
| About:
Self-interest,
Work
| Keywords:
disastrous, imperative, imperatives, seriously, The Second
«People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.»
«The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Crime,
Self-esteem,
Self-interest
| Keywords:
arise, crimes, indulgence, indulgences, sensibilities, sensibility
«Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Affection,
Self-interest
| Keywords:
self interest
«By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Self-interest
| Keywords:
gregarious, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, remained, self interest, solitary, to a great extent
«Deny Self for Self's sake»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Egotism,
Self-interest
«For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Self-interest
| Keywords:
outward, preserve, reasons, sanity, signs