Quotes About Self-involvement

Ours is not an age that wants heroes. Ours is an age of envy, in which laziness and self-involvement are the rule. Anyone who tries to shine, who dares to stand above the crowd, is dragged down by his lackluster and self-appointed "peers".

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

Family," she whispered. "So many people go through their lives with blinders on. They become self-involved and only want to think about their wants and their desires. They don't leave room for anything else, and then, too late, they realize how important their families were.

The Trusting Heart, Dr. Williams describes how this research evolved.) In particular, the factors most toxic to the heart are self-involvement, hostility, and cynicism.

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

Depression is a very narcissistic thing, it's a self involvement that is so deep and intense that it means the sufferer cannot get out of her own head long enough to see what real good, what genuine loveliness, there is in the world around her.

What happened with us has nothing to do with you," retorted Marcus. "Everything about her has to do with me.

Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.

It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I sometimes will be very shut off from everybody. I can be very pettish and sometimes not available when you need me. At those times, I'm very selfish and worrying about my own problems.

But is life worth living in the wrong form?" said Elphie. "The interior doesn't change," she answered, "except by self-involvement. Of which be not afraid, and also beware.

What we so admire and call single minded dedication was really obsessive self-involvement. What in that exactly is admirable?

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I think when your confidence is still growing as a young artist, your capacity for generosity and partnership can be hindered, probably in large part due to self-involvement.

Because if you are fresh from the hazing of PhD training, you are: insecure, defensive, paranoid, beset by feelings of inadequacy, pretentious, self-involved, communicatively challenged, and fixated on minutiae.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

I'm very much in a mindset that I take myself out of anything that I'm not involved in.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

Freedom means taking sides in a crisis situation, when a society is divided into oppressed and oppressors. In this situation we are not permitted the luxury of being on neither side by making a decision that only involves the self.

Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own map for keeps. The truth is that the hours before a suicide are usually an interval of enormous conceit and self-involvement.

Self-obsession, that treacherous time waster.