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Selfishness is placing concern with oneself or one's own interests above the interests of others.[1][2] Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness.
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Given two actors, oneself and someone else, there are four types of possible behavior directly impacting the welfare of the actors; selfishness, altruism, spite, and cooperation. Selfishness is harming someone else in order to help oneself; Altruism is harming oneself in order to help someone else; Spite is harming oneself in order to harm someone else; Cooperation is helping someone else and also helping oneself.[3] [4]
The implications of selfishness have inspired divergent views within religious, philosophical, psychological, economic and evolutionary contexts.[citation needed]
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Selfishness refers to taking interest in oneself.
Selfish may also refer to:
"Selfish" is the second episode of the seventh season of the American medical drama House. It aired on September 27, 2010. House (Hugh Laurie) treats a patient with sickle cell trait, while dealing with the effects of his burgeoning relationship with Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) on his work.
The patient of the week is Della Carr, an active and seemingly healthy teenager, who suddenly collapses with heart arrhythmia at a charity function for congenital muscular dystrophy, which her brother Hugo also has. At the hospital, she develops further symptoms of kidney failure and bleeding lung, which requires her to have a lung transplant. The donor lung also fails. After a chance conversation with Hugo, and subsequent questioning of Della, House arrives at the diagnosis of sickle cell trait.
This episode marks the first time Cuddy and House go to work after getting together. When House announces to his team and Wilson that he is dating Cuddy, Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) is disbelieving, Chase (Jesse Spencer) is indifferent, Foreman (Omar Epps) is in favor, whereas Taub (Peter Jacobson) is rightly apprehensive about how the relationship will affect the team's working.
In golf, a gimme is a shot that the other players agree can count automatically without being actually played.
When a player has only a very short putt left to play, other players may grant a gimme (i.e. one stroke is counted), but the ball is not actually played. A gimme is a time-saving convention under the tacit assumption that the putt would not have been missed—e.g. when the ball is only a few inches from the hole.
Gimmes are not allowed by the rules in stroke play, though the practice is common in casual matches. However, in match play, either player may formally concede a stroke, a hole, or the entire match at any time, and this may not be refused or withdrawn. A player in match play will generally concede a tap-in or other short putt by his or her opponent.
The word is a colloquial contraction of the phrase "give me".
"Gimme" was the Cypriot entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 by the boy band One, performed in English and is the first occasion that the Cypriot entry did not featured Greek lyrics. The song is a boyband number, with a girl being asked to give a sign that she loves the singers.
The song was performed first on the night, followed by the United Kingdom's Jessica Garlick with "Come Back". At the close of voting, it had received 85 points, placing 6th in a field of 24.
A few seconds after the lead singer Constantinos Christoforou began singing, a technical hitch led to a caption bearing the words 'Ugly Duckling' on the background video screen. Fortunately the picture of the stage was quickly brought back.
One of the members of the band, Constantinos Christoforou, had already participated for Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 with the song "Mono Yia Mas". He would later make a further solo appearance at the 2005 Contest with "Ela Ela (Come Baby)" after the band formally disbanded. Therefore the song represents the middle leg in a rare sequence of a Eurovision contestant performing solo, then as a member of a vocal group, before a second solo performance.
Gimme, in golf, is a shot agreed to be counted automatically without being actually played.
Gimme may also refer to:
Pag kasama ka
Lubos ang saya.
Tunay na kaibigan,
Di kita iiwanan.
Pag kasama ka,
Lungkot limot ko na.
Tunay na kaibigan,
Samahang hanggang wakas.
Kahit na magiba ng panahon
Kahit dumating ang maraming alon.
Kahit ilang bes pa tayong matalo.
Okay lang(okay lang yan), Okay lang.
'pag wala ka nang matakbuhan,
Wala kanang mapagbalingan.
Nandito lang kame, tayo'y di magiiwanan.
Sa Umaga, Tanghali o gabi
Okay lang, okay lang
Huminga ka nang malalim,
Pwes sadyang ganyan.
Ano mang mangyari,
Nandito lang sa likuran.
Will be there together, Di ka iiwanan.
Pag kasama ka,
Lubos ang saya.
Tunay na kaibigan,
Di kita iiwanan
Pag kasama ka,
Lungkot limot ko na.
Tunay na kaibigan
Samahang hanggang wakas.
Wooh ohh wooh ohh wooh ohh wooh ohh(2x)
Kahit na lumakas pa ang unos
Kahit na sa paglipas ng taon
Kahit na saan maparuon
Okay lang, okay lang.
Sumusumpa at nangangako sayo hanggang wakas,
Di malilimutan ang ating samahan.
Noon, ngayon at magpakailanman.
Huminga ka nang malalim,
Pwes sadyang ganyan.
Ano mang mangyari,
Nandito lang sa likuran.
Will be there together, Di ka iiwanan.
Pag kasama ka,
Lubos ang saya
Tunay na kaibigan
Di kita iiwanan
Pag kasama ka
Lungkot limot ko na
Tunay na kaibigan,
Samahang hanggang wakas.
Wooh ohh wooh ohh wooh ohh wooh ohh(2x)
Kailan ma'y di lalayo,
Ito ang ating pangako.
Kapag kasama ka,
Lubos ang saya(ang saya)
Tunay na kaibigan,
Di kita iiwanan(di kita iiwanan)
Kapag kasama ka(kapag kasama ka)
Lungkot limot ko na(limot ko na)
Tunay na kaibigan,
Samahang(samahan)
Hanggang wakas
Woooh ohh woooh ohh ohh wooh(3x)
Pag kasama ka,
Lubos ang saya,
Tunay na kaibigan
Samahang hanggang wakas.