Darcey Bussell Quotes

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.

I have a very broad range of life experiences.

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me.

The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

I want to live all aspects of my life, not just acting.

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

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.

Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

I tried piano, acting, and a bunch of things. My family let me do what I wanted to do; they made sure I had balance in my life because I was self-driven. Listen to your kid, encourage them, and make it fun.

I've never felt terribly attached to acting because I always feel like the world is really big and really interesting, and there are a lot of places that I can put my energy and be fulfilled.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.

me-firstism

All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.

At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.