John Irving Quotes

I am a very selfish person.

In essence, Trump thinks everything should be about him, for him, for his benefit and glorification - and he can't comprehend, and doesn't care about, anything that isn't.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

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

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

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

I was always pretty selfish.

Ever the blameless narcissist, Trump always insists that the buck stops wherever convenient - for him, personally.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

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.

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.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

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

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

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

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

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.