Quotes About Egocentric People

#1. An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Idries Shah

#2. Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

Macklemore

#3. It is not for nothing that the king of a commonwealth is called "Sire"; humanly speaking, of the callings of fatherhood and kingship, the deeper and more primordial is fatherhood.

J. Budziszewski

#4. You get a timeless cool card in New York.

Vin Diesel

#5. THE SELF IS THE ROOT of the mental poisons. Our mind fabricates, projects, and attaches concepts to people and things. Egocentric fixation reinforces the qualities or defects that we attribute to others. From

Dalai Lama XIV

#6. People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.

Duop Chak Wuol

#7. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.

J.D. Salinger

#8. We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.

Donald Alexander

#9. To give them liberty, and stop here, is to entail upon them a curse.

Anonymous

#10. Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one's own life is about as productive as talking to one's image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy.

Anthony Marais

#11. THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY

Terry Pratchett

#12. Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

Zach Galligan

#13. People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

Bob Newhart

#14. He didn't want to spend the rest of his life looking like an extra from The Walking Dead.

Rick Riordan

#15. Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

Lauren Groff

#16. My father's a character.

Bryan Adams

#17. Guys willing to hold your dick are a dime a dozen; save your hearts for the one who wants to hold your hand.

Diane Adams

#18. This phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt has a name---the impostor syndrome.

Sheryl Sandberg

#19. I'm sorry Elena. I know that you want to help, but put yourself in her shoes, everything that happened tonight was to save you and that's OK because she loves you so much. But somehow she's always the one who gets hurt.

L.J.Smith

#20. Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

Michael Eisner

#21. There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe.

James Rhodes

#22. I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.

Chelsea Cain

#23. People with power do not regulate their behavior as much. They become egocentric and preoccupied with their own self-interest, which eclipses their awareness of the interests of others.

Dean M. Schroeder

#24. Simply put, self-centered and egocentric people don't
inspire others. We are inspired by people who place
others-- other people, other ideas, other goals-- above
themselves.

Del Suggs

#25. Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

Bo Bennett