Histrionic Narcissists Quotes

#1. A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#2. You want your brain to become used to the idea that just knowing how to use a particular problem-solving technique isn't enough - you also need to know when to use it.

Barbara Oakley

#3. In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally - it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.

Edouard Manet

#4. The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else

Gustavo Perez Firmat

#5. A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

Leah Ward Sears

#6. The way out of a trap is to know the way the trap is built. Only then will it cease being a trap.

Marguerite Beecher

#7. Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?

Yuval Noah Harari

#8. With the exception of the geometrical series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series the sum of which has been rigorously determined. In other words, the things which are the most important in mathematics are also those which have the least foundation.

Niels Henrik Abel

#9. A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Mark Strand

#10. Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

Jeffrey Kluger