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"unselfish" Definitions
  1. giving more time or importance to other people’s needs, wishes, etc. than to your own

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"The most unselfish people have the most children and the moderately unselfish receive the highest salaries," Erikkson continued.
"We're very unselfish and play as a team," Roberts said.
And that way of unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive love changes lives.
People always talk about having kids as an unselfish act.
We had 11 assists, which is an unselfish game, really good.
He's a winner and he's an incredible player and he's unselfish.
"I just like the fact that we were playing unselfish," Purvis said.
What I like about our team is our guys are very unselfish.
Very unselfish always, and he always had a smile on his face.
"All of us together are just unselfish," said Warriors center JaVale McGee.
The thing that I love is that they are also unselfish players.
Dayton's balanced scoring was the result of effective and unselfish ball movement.
USC's unselfish and balanced play extended to the all-around scoring effort.
What happens if Chicago adopts unselfish, modern principles that maximize everyone's strengths?
It's an unselfish outlook, but not quite credible to unevolved people like me.
"This is a very unselfish team — we find the open guys," Gasol explained.
"We were being very unselfish and it was my night tonight," Murray said.
If we're not making plays that are unselfish, then we're not about winning.
Imagine this tired old world when love is the way, unselfish, sacrificial redemptive.
Motives are rarely unselfish— so why should we expect more from our patients?
But Matt did something very unselfish and I want to commend him for it.
"I think we've been unselfish, we've been playing together, we've been resilient," Lopez said.
"They're the most unselfish people I've played with in my life," JaVale McGee said.
" Mr. Busch, who divorced in 2011, thought Ms. Van Metre was "beautiful and unselfish.
"It's the most unselfish type of gift you can give someone," Ilysa says about Catriona.
He said Benjamin's unselfish nature would allow him to fit back into the lineup easily.
Each gives the other access to a different perspective, not to mention an unselfish empathy.
These anonymous gestures of unselfish generosity cannot be expected, but they are frequent and beautiful.
Musselman calls these "shared possessions," and they are an indication of chemistry and unselfish play.
At very least, must have been a big fan of the unselfish 1973 championship team.
And that's to say nothing of all the unselfish reasons a man might get the vaccine.
At its base was a plaque celebrating the "heroic courage" and "unselfish patriotism" of their cause.
Myles Turner is LaMarcus Aldridge 2.0 Myles Turner has touch, unselfish tendencies, and enlightening physical tools.
With the move of those two guys, it takes being unselfish and thinking about the team.
Giannis propelled the Bucks to great heights last season with his leadership, drive and unselfish play.
And that way of unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive love changes lives, and it can change this world.
Still, it's a semi-unselfish act from Uber, which is a bit of a novelty. 3.
"We communicated, and we were very unselfish, defensively," center Marc Gasol told reporters after Sunday's triumph.
Hayward thrives as an unselfish playmaker who doesn't panic when the shot clock is winding down.
We are not deserving of someone who is this unselfish with their gifts to the world.
On that day almost 50 years ago, I learned about uncommon valor and unselfish heroic acts.
And in so doing, becomes redemptive, and that way of unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive love, changes lives.
This generation coming up -- unselfish, altruistic, creative, patriotic -- I've seen you in every corner of the country.
Her unselfish and heroic act sends the message that our community supports and needs its law enforcement.
This generation coming up - unselfish, altruistic, creative, patriotic - I've seen you in every corner of the country.
It's not impossible, but it's also not the unselfish of play we typically associate with this team.
Those plays were few and far between, though, because LeBron is as smart as he is unselfish.
He added, "And it is of course debatable how unselfish it really is to have more children."
"There's a balance for him because he's so unselfish," Thunder coach Billy Donovan told reporters of Durant.
As it turns out, most participants said they wouldn't want to work with their unselfish teammate again.
You possess a healthy flexibility; the kind that is free from resentment and abuse, making you unselfish.
Now he's entering year two in an unselfish, unguardable system, surrounded by an increasingly potent supporting cast.
" Two months later, in his farewell address, Barack Obama hailed "this generation coming up — unselfish, altruistic, creative.
"It's a combination of unselfish plays and guys making shots," coach Michael Malone said before Tuesday's contest.
They just want to give you love, and it's such an unselfish group of fans at Comic-Con.
"I think this is an unselfish team," sophomore guard Isaiah Briscoe told reporters after scoring 17 points Friday.
We have a bunch of unselfish players that are making the extra pass, and it's great to see.
But Jesus was offering people a reward in an afterlife, so he wasn't asking people to be unselfish.
Many fans believe that Bran could get stuck in the Night King's body accidentally for entirely unselfish reasons.
"We were both lunatics during this chaotic time, but I liked how modest and unselfish she was," he said.
"You want to be unselfish," Blais recalled telling Guentzel over and over during Guentzel's three years with the Mavericks.
"I'm the living proof that a person can wait 41 years to be unselfish," she said during the ceremony.
The Knicks are an unselfish group, but there is a delicate balance between teammates who share and individuals who create.
"It's special when you have teammates who are unselfish," said Whiteside, who made 10-of-15 shots from the floor.
The guys were so unselfish getting me the ball and telling me to shoot it every time I touched it.
"To make the play he did shows he really is unselfish and will do anything for the team," Reinhart said.
It allows the Warriors, an unselfish bunch, to scramble the coordinated player rotations at the heart of modern NBA defenses.
" Producers Larry Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Lionsgate & Millennium released a joint statement to CNN saying they "fully support" Skrein's "unselfish decision.
Vela also showed himself to be an unselfish focal point of LAFC's attack with an impressive tally of 15 assists.
He always went out of his way to make things better for me and my mom; he was utterly unselfish.
Let me tell you, this generation coming up -- unselfish, altruistic, creative, patriotic -- I've seen you in every corner of the country.
It was an unselfish style that valued movement of both the puck and one's body over a more straight-ahead approach.
He's an unselfish big with rare vision who forces opposing shot blockers to make impossible help decisions throughout any given possession.
Durant's current team mates, however, call him unselfish when it comes to understanding how he can impact the game each night.
Quoting the Biblical Book of Amos, Curry said: When love is the way -- unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive, when love is the way.
But this does not obviate genuine moral outrage, and the unselfish acknowledgment of injustices, even those that do not affect us.
He's an amazing dude that I think is really, really about promoting the work of the students in an unselfish way.
Let me tell you, this generation coming up — unselfish, altruistic, creative, patriotic — I've seen you in every corner of the country.
KJ Feagin scored 12 points and dished out eight assists, setting the tone for the Aztecs' unselfish approach in the rout.
Ball looks like an organization-changer, a wholly unselfish maestro who was put on the Earth to play basketball and win games.
" Jenkins said, "For him to be so unselfish and give up the ball, it just shows what type of teammate he is.
Golden State gushes with unselfish, intelligent passers who've helped unlock Steve Kerr's vision of an offensive system where everyone feels connected and useful.
According to Lennon, Ono suffered repeated nasty behavior from those whom he mockingly describes in the letter as his "kind and unselfish" friends.
Duncan, who retired in 2016 and was perhaps the least flashy major star in the N.B.A., was emblematic of the team's unselfish style.
A team built around arguably the most versatile and unselfish superstar in NBA history wouldn't seem to have much trouble forging an identity.
Unselfish ball movement was not the modus operandi in Houston last season, but that's only because they didn't need it to be successful.
You can see that with the way we play, the unselfish play, how competitive we are, how much we give for one another.
I expressed the unselfish holiday hope that my children, at least, had explained to all admirers that the hats were their mother's handiwork.
"He's unselfish is what he is, I don't think anyone else probably could have been as fluid with it as he was," she said.
I thought it was unselfish of you to defend Brie Larson when she was being unfairly attacked leading up to the Captain Marvel release.
"I took the picture because I thought it was such a kind, unselfish thing for an officer to do," Schafer told Good Morning America.
It was a game full of the extra pass and the unselfish play, dunks by Derrick Williams and blocked shots by Porzingis — five in all.
Lacking a superstar, the Heat have become an incredibly unselfish and smart offensive team that features a balanced attack, near-perfect spacing, and few mistakes.
Ginobili sustained his unpredictable savagery until the end, a man who embodied unselfish tendencies and successfully harnessed his flair inside Gregg Popovich's culture of conformity.
While her intentions are unselfish, and these instincts naturally make her a fantastic CIA agent, they're also what makes her a crappy friend and mother.
It is a parable enshrining the hope that the journey to setting the world on a better course can begin with a single, unselfish act.
In a similar, follow-up experiment in the same study, some said the unselfish teammate made them look bad; others suspected they had ulterior motives.
Perhaps his passing, in the week of the Pearl Harbor anniversary, can make us pause and ask ourselves if we're capable of similar unselfish service.
Their forwards Tobias Harris and Marcus Morris have been surprisingly effective, and the rest of Coach Stan Van Gundy's roster is playing balanced, unselfish basketball.
In that research, published in The Leadership Quarterly, students assigned to lead a group behaved less selfishly when told that other leaders had been unselfish.
As Robert Kennedy, whose senate seat I was honored to hold, once said, 'we are a great country, an unselfish country, and a compassionate country.
"I think the one thing with Russ is, he is an unselfish point guard who's got an explosive ability to score," Thunder coach Billy Donovan said.
At Toledo's Whitmer High School, Hayes was a good-but-not-great basketball prospect, an unselfish big man who also excelled in football at wide receiver.
Zimmer said they reminded him of his unit in Cincinnati, a collection of smart, unselfish, overlooked grunts he called the Little Sisters of the Poor in 2009.
They subsist off a constant churn of passes, cuts, screens, and movement that breeds an unselfish energy—a complete culture shock for Crowder after his first game.
That's a far cry from the most famous big-screen filibuster, from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Frank Capra's 1939 ode to the simple, unselfish American hero.
"As long as I play the right way and be unselfish and we win games, all of that is going to come," Harden said of MVP consideration.
And instead of taking the shot, she simply made the smart, unselfish play and passed the ball to Alex Morgan, who had a better angle at goal.
There's more to offense than scoring, though, and for Tatum to reach his own summit he'll need to read defensive coverages and combine authoritative vision with unselfish decisions.
The Constitution is a document of commonsense law and individual protections as amended with the Bill of Rights, written by unselfish framers who saw beyond their individual desires.
Anyone who's ever heard a postgame interview has learned to tune out words like "determined" and "unselfish," but in this case there are no words that work better.
He's always been very unselfish, and a lot of those times he didn't want to do things it was because he wanted other people to get some attention.
As she fought for her life, she also received what she calls the "greatest and most unselfish gift you can give someone," when a stranger became her kidney donor.
The Huskies got double-figure points from four players and nine assists from Daniel Hamilton in an unselfish effort that delighted coach Kevin Ollie against the Bulls last game.
An unselfish player, he should fit right in with Gregg Popovich's ball-moving system, and the Spurs' reputation for resting players for the playoffs had to be appealing to Gasol.
But, it's really fun to coach a guy who is so unselfish and got more excited jumping higher on a couple of his assists than a couple of his baskets.
Cultivating those collective on-court instincts and habits takes time and repetition; even the most unselfish one-and-done player spends less than a year on campus before moving on.
"Antonio was an unselfish player who had the ability to do just about everything you can think of on a football field," Chargers coach Anthony Lynn said in a statement.
This creates a nightly advantage, so long as Indiana's players buy in themselves, and understand how crucial unselfish, hit-ahead passes are if they want to make all their running worthwhile.
You certainly have some guys who are going to be unselfish and pitch whenever the skipper tells 'em to, but in reality, they want the ball in those late-innings situations.
The ease with which he wrote the first book — the pure, unselfish freedom of writing only for himself, which Mason now calls "a kind of lost youth" — was replaced by difficulty.
In the offseason they added one of the league's premier scorers, former league Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant, who quickly adapted to the team's fast-paced and unselfish brand of basketball.
But the Warriors were pushed to six games by the scrappy Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of the playoffs as they mirrored their unselfish offensive style and stingy defense.
Credit a compassionate coach, Jim Larranaga, who preached that basketball is fun, and a cast of overlooked, mostly local talent that played with unselfish grit and an unshakeable belief in each other.
He did it as an unselfish player, coming off the bench for the first time in his career, probably in his life, and then being called on to start and guard LeBron.
"When everybody is connected defensively ... communicating, being consistent and solid and being unselfish defensively, that puts us at a different level," center Marc Gasol told reporters after recording 15 points and eight rebounds.
San Antonio trailed by nine points at halftime and got as close as 69-65 two minutes into the third quarter before Golden State took charge with its superior firepower and unselfish play.
The big message to our team is if we continue to play with that type of effort, if we continue to play the right way, and unselfish, we're going to start winning games.
Hepburn made her first appearance at the 1974 Academy Awards when she presented the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, saying, "I'm living proof that a person can wait 41 years to be unselfish." 
Indiana is averaging 117.5 points during the streak and its recent display of unselfish play was evident when it committed a season-low six turnovers in Thursday's 121-109 win over the Brooklyn Nets.
Lukaku led the counter-attack which led to Belgium's second goal against Brazil in the quarter-final and also set up their winner against Japan in the second round with an astute, unselfish dummy.
With Parsons, Conley, Zach Randolph, and Gasol on the floor, it's easy to imagine these Grizzlies as one of the more unselfish teams in the league, just a year after finishing 25th in assist rate.
They are fearsome and relentless forecheckers, unselfish with the puck and before our eyes discovering new possibilities within themselves; the former enforcer Ryan Reaves, for example, has scored two goals in the last three games.
Kidd is responsible for a publicly humiliating intentional free throw fiasco, tinkers with his rotation seemingly at random, and implemented a high-risk, high-reward defensive strategy that can be picked apart by an unselfish offense.
All of these are enviable qualities in a game that rewards unselfish play, but Boston has also been able to adapt on the fly and assume different forms based on the team they're lined up against.
Often described by teammates as a humble, generous and unselfish character off the pitch, the residing impression of Rocky is one of someone who refused to take anything for granted, especially not representing his football club.
But as he sat just 7 points short of 27.33,000 for his career leading into Tuesday night's game against the San Antonio Spurs, the notoriously unselfish superstar threw an online alley-oop to himself off the backboard.
For a couple of magical years, the Blazers were a joyful unit, the epitome of unselfish teamwork, and they radically overachieved because of it, improbably winning the 1977 championship over Dr. J and the star-studded Philadelphia 303ers.
Toivonen scored in the 2-1 loss to Germany but otherwise it's been slim pickings for him and fellow striker Marcus Berg due to the amount of unselfish running demanded of them by coach Janne Andersson's defensive system.
ANDREW R. CHOW As part of Drake's low-key OVO Sound hit factory, in which enigmatic acts like Majid Jordan and PartyNextDoor work as artists, songwriters and producers, the beat maker Nineteen85 knows the power of unselfish collaboration.
Kohli fell in unselfish manner trying to score quickly for his team and was out caught close to the boundary rope by Aaron Finch off paceman James Faulkner, who finished with figures of 2-60 in his 10 overs.
These Warriors have been defined by unselfish play, and they backed that up this year with Curry, Green and Durant all scoring significantly fewer points a game than they had in the previous season in order to work together.
I thought our overall getting back in transition, shot discipline in terms of trying to make them take tough shots, we rebounded the ball well and then I thought offensively, 33 assists, we were unselfish, we made the extra pass.
But back then, I still had to think of adoption as an unqualified good, a benefit to every adoptee, sure proof of unselfish love, because to do otherwise felt like a betrayal of my family and their love for me.
Toronto's Offense Is Official Despite struggles in the clutch, which reflect a reversion back to the isolation-heavy, late-shot-clock-heaving approach that hurts them so much when it matters most, Toronto's offense is quietly morphing into an unselfish monster.
Using Hinduism as her prime example, she argued that "selfish" vegetarians abstain from meat for fear of retribution in the afterlife, whereas "unselfish" Aryan vegetarians demonstrate their superhuman qualities and racial superiority by caring for the welfare of "all" sentient creatures.
Fred VanVleet continues to destroy the Golden State defense with tough 123-pointers, but a combination of Draymond Green's rebounding and the team's unselfish play on offense has Golden State leading a game it should, by all accounts be losing.
Imagine this tired old world when love is the way, when love is the way, unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive, when love is the way, then no child will go to bed hungry in this world ever again when love is the way.
Low-key and well-liked by his players, he was adept at getting supremely talented athletes to play unselfish and fundamentally sound basketball in an era before the N.B.A. adopted the 24-second shot clock, which inspired a high-scoring running game.
In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, &aposThe American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions.
Watch how he attacks the basket at full speed, and then either slows abruptly at the last second or completely stops on a dime as the defense flies by: Dragic is a crafty and unselfish player, and Miami's new spread offense fits his abilities perfectly.
"The way they run the floor, the way they're unselfish, the way they hit the open man — it's a pleasure to watch," said Pete Carril, another Hall of Famer whose offense during 29 years as coach at Princeton was heralded for its perpetual motion.
" In the same speech, he told the midshipmen, "If we are to keep this great big experiment called America alive—and that's all it is, an experiment—we need cocky, macho, unselfish, and morally very straight young men and women to lead our forces against the enemy.
Turning Smith's knack for shot-creation from a necessity into a luxury is the best thing that's happened to his career, aside from being fortunate enough to land on the same team as James, who is arguably the most unselfish on-court superstar we've ever had.
Given the nature of their current roster, the Grizzlies game plan can't be much different than when you play a pickup game with a skilled, unselfish big man—if you want to win, you'll make sure that big man touches the ball every time down court.
Then, as a multimedia work, "Lemonade" goes even further: Its video album, directed by Beyoncé and Kahlil Joseph with crucial interludes of poetry by Warsan Shire, magnifies the personal to the archetypal, situating Beyoncé among generations of African-American women in a long, unselfish, unfinished struggle.
Brown acknowledges Hitler's vicious anti-Semitism as the core of Hitler's appeal — and notes the terrified Jewish community was fleeing from him — but goes on to dismiss it as a play to satiate the rubes (bolding mine): He is credibly credited with being actuated by lofty, unselfish patriotism.
The unselfish choice is the one that doesn't posit himself as the answer to all of America's political problems, that doesn't pretend American politics was just waiting for a better billionaire to ride in on his magnificent steed, that takes seriously the mechanics of the system he hopes to reform.
No team in the league won more games during the '01-02 and '02-03 seasons, and no team won them more wonderfully; in a league that was still bogged down in grunty, old-fashioned stylistics, the Kings played a fast, protean, unselfish style of basketball that seemed somehow to have more basketball in it than any other team's.
But I just feel like the unselfish nature of our team is perfect for me, and just the way they share the ball, get up and down and score the ball, it's really the ideal fit for me, and how Coach Malone lets his guys play and trusts them on the floor, it's perfect for me.
This is a small-sample size that includes victories over the depleted Boston Celtics, Joel Embiid-less Philadelphia 76ers, and a Magic team that started Mario Hezonja and Wesley Iwundu (exactly), but, on the whole, the Bulls are exactly what we thought they'd be: A fast, unselfish team that's enjoying the style of play their head coach was hired to install.

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