#indulgent

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#ahead #being #blinders #full #garbage

Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career. ↗

— Steve Purcell

#career #creative #creative people #into #made

I am pretty self-indulgent. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#i #i am #pretty #self-indulgent

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bring #dismiss #effective #enabled #faculty

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb! ↗

— Courtney Love

#dumb #fact #in fact #indulgent #kind

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#actor #attitude #because #center #child

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#act #always #anybody #bad #check

All autobiography is self-indulgent. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#self-indulgent

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#enemy #every #fancies #far #friend