Tracy McMillan Quotes

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

There is a perspective out there that I'm very much all about myself... I just live with it.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

The dilemma I have is that everything I do at work is all about me, and at what point is that selfish? I'm just talking and singing about myself, or I'm standing on a stage and hoping that everybody likes me. Obviously, it's also about the music and feeling and connecting; I know it's deeper than that.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.