Quotes About Egocentricity

#1. Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

Kenneth Rexroth

#2. Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues ... you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity ... you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.

Flannery O'Connor

#3. Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.

Criss Jami

#4. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

Richard Paul Evans

#5. These eight independent satellite states of the psychopathic personality
Machiavellian Egocentricity, Impulsive Nonconformity, Blame Externalization, Carefree Nonplanfulness, Fearlessness, Social Potency, Stress Immunity, and Coldheartedness.

Kevin Dutton

#6. I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#7. Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

Evan Esar

#8. I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

Henning Mankell

#9. The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Erich Fromm

#10. 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

#11. As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

Garry Trudeau

#12. When we don't put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

Zeena Schreck

#13. Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

Alice Moore Hubbard

#14. When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation for your efforts.

Joel Grey

#15. The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

Kim Wilde

#16. None of us ever really grow up into the adults we seem on the outside do we Jack. We all carry our childhood demons forever.

Dylan Jones

#17. Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

Joe Haldeman

#18. He tapped the sun over his heart. I came here for you. You're my flag. You're my nation.

Leigh Bardugo

#19. I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous ... Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect.

Jurgen Habermas

#20. Her social position at Safeway was better than it was at home.

Nell Zink