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When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
Emmanuel Macron
Politics
Become
Politicians
More
Longer
Mission
Self-Serving
Than
Public
Profession
Public Servants
Servants
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
Diane Abbott
You
Say
Indefensible
Hypocritical
Sounds
Self-Serving
Anything
Defend
Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
Adam Grant
Me
You
About
Takers
Self-Serving
Interactions
Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.
Marilyn Ferguson
Good
Prevail
Water
Doctors
Sense
Aim
Our
Consideration
Spin
Over
Heads
Policy
Self-Serving
Common
Common Sense
Public
Agendas
Public Good
Public Policy
Who
Keep
Designed
Below
Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.
Travis Bradberry
Kindness
You
People
Leader
Weak
Kind
See
Through
Self-Serving
Agenda
Manner
Use
Thin
Right
We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self-serving pronouncements and forms of cyber-bullying are replaced by thoughtful dialogue and open-minded conversation.
Anthony Carmona
Conversation
Focus
Our
Thoughtful
Open-Minded
Ideas
Opinionated
Dialogue
Self-Serving
Replace
Replaced
Forms
Personalities
Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.
Megan Rapinoe
Failure
You
Yourself
Move On
Just Be
Honestly
Approach
Correct
Critical
About
Area
Performance
Because
How
Fallen
Self-Serving
Move
Short
Just
Dwell
Where
Hold
Them
Your
Assess
Honest
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.
Simon Mainwaring
History
Capitalism
Behavior
Numerous
Else
Find
Examples
Fact
Tend
Throughout
Look
Gluttony
Were
Self-Serving
Behaviors
The History Of
Anyone
Anyone Else
Whether
Might
Far
Far And Wide
Wide
Disregard
Need
Harm
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
Queen Rania of Jordan
Nature
Ideology
Everything
Primary
Primary Goal
Self-Serving
Goal
Very
Survive
To Survive
Hard-Line
One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.
Anand Giridharadas
Vision
Impossible
Made
Parents
Virtue
Our
Would
India
Stayed
About
Had
Clearest
Course
Been
Self-Serving
Impressions
Child
Stories
Displacement
Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
Donella Meadows
Politics
Political
Energy
Every
Analysis
Background
Case
Shaped
Well
Policy
Well Known
Forces
Known
Foreground
Self-Serving
Loud
Energy Policy
Two
I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.
Graham Nash
Better
Think
Has-Been
He
Know
Sounds
Been
Self-Serving
Truly
Lot
Than
Ever
Playing
I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.
Howard Schultz
Future
Right Person
Strong
Own
Think
Back
Our
Given
Had
Come
Economy
Sounds
Issues
Self-Serving
Very
Person
Rewrite
Company
Right
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
Irvine Welsh
You
Power
Kind
Corrupt
Entrenched
Becomes
Self-Serving
Get
Any
Just
Happens
When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.
Jose Antonio Vargas
Lie
Writing
Past
Way
Kind
Tense
Delusional
Like
Make
Around
Always
Camera
Self-Serving
Manipulate
Really
Certain
Certain Extent
Film
Play
Present
Extent
'A Just Defiance' has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal apartheid to have been far more brutal, ruthless, and self-serving even than we had suspected.
Justin Cartwright
Success
Defiance
Reading
South Africa
Significance
Has-Been
More
Thriller
Ruthless
Brutal
Had
Like
Reveal
Well-Written
Been
Self-Serving
South
Huge
Times
Than
Suspected
Just
Africa
While
Apartheid
Far
Even
'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business.
Justin Cartwright
You
Business
Book
Brilliant
Reading
Chaotic
Post-War
Shallow
Winston
Until
Powers
Advertising
Occasionally
Self-Serving
Covers
Ultimately
Impression
Get
Story
Which
Persuasion
Present
British
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
Liam Fox
Government
Mistake
National
Security
Economic
Economic Policies
New
Most
Make
Policies
Known
Make No Mistake
Ineffective
Were
Self-Serving
Labour
National Security
Short-Sighted
Useless
Ever
Incompetent
Britain
Liability
As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
Mark Hatfield
Faith
Me
Ideology
Christian
Other
Religious
Religious Faith
More
Part
New
Concerns
Misuse
Self-Serving
Than
Right
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
Mark Strand
Me
Think
Responsive
Rather
Tend
Never
Part
Blind
Self-Serving
Curious
Expressive
Tedious
John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.
Matt Taibbi
Man
Survival
Political
Made
Unmatched
John
Hack
Hairy
Him
Ultimate
Self-Serving
Decades
American
Blue
After
Sandwich
Skill
Mold
Congressional
Washington
Whose
Two
I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
Parker Harris
You
Change
Will
Build
Believe
Think
Enough
Back
Way
Jobs
One Of The Things
See
About
Online
Steve
Steve Jobs
Talking
Said
Go
iPad
Were
Self-Serving
Going
Little
Your
App
Lucky
Marc
Things
The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
Rush Limbaugh
Hope
Future
Government
History
Change
Result
Big
Politicians
President
President Obama
Has-Been
Obama
Tried
Throughout
Powerful
New
Disaster
Always
Tested
Been
Self-Serving
Big Government
Bureaucrats
Agenda
Your
It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.
Sean Parker
Me
History
Facebook
Intelligence
World
Believe
Incredibly
Way
Possibly
Presumptuous
Would
Would-Be
Super
Some
Only
Could
Takes
Over
Sort
Becomes
Self-Serving
End
Artificial
When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.
Srikumar Rao
Saying
You
People
Leader
Say
Recognise
Would
Phrase
Somehow
Inspiring
Self
Like
Perhaps
Operative
Self-Serving
Get
Want
Whether
Them
Really
Inherently
Serving
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.
Steven Spielberg
Me
Nothing
About
Motivated
Self-Serving
List
Screen
Bring
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