"The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish."

-- Pat Riley

#Selfish Quotes #Team Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.”
“We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.”
“In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.”
“Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.”
“The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.”
“Congress has really set this thing up in a way that they absolve themselves of blame, They have their scapegoats. They can blame the Pentagon. They can blame BRAC. It's hard for voters to say this is Ortiz's fault.”
“In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.”
“Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.”

Source : Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.240, Hachette UK

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