A Quote by Robert Mapplethorpe

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

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Robert Mapplethorpe
American - Photographer
November 4, 1946 - March 9, 1989

A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

M. J. Rose

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

Ted Malloch

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

John Fowles

I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good enough?" "Because I was selfish." I say. "You were selfish? You aren't anymore?" "Of course I am. My mother said that everyone is selfish," I say, "but I became less selfish in Dauntless. I discovered there were people I would fight for. Die for, even.

Veronica Roth

Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone.

Sandra Tsing Loh

The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

Peter Cundill

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

Steven Johnson

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

Ai Weiwei

I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we are selfish or we should be selfish.

Richard Dawkins

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I ask people to not attribute what I've done - my success and how hard I've worked - to not reduce that or attribute that to someone else.

London Breed

Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment - you can't compromise, really.

Viv Albertine

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

Helen Slater

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Possess the "Nobel Factor": Possess and constantly demonstrate optimism, faith, and hope. They create choices. I am reminded of an ancient Chinese proverb: "That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change; but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent."

Warren G. Bennis

There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap.

Arlene Dickinson

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