Quotes About Self-centered

The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children.

I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

Well, they're all performers, aren't they? All mild exhibitionists. They're so busy putting themselves over that they haven't time to think about anyone else. It's not that they don't like other people; they just never have a moment to consider them.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

Now we've got an entire generation of fucked-up narcissists 'cause their mamas told them they're special.

Your client is that common animal, the Classic Narcissist. He doesn't care if he's making your life miserable, cutting into your profit margin, or getting you in trouble with the boss. He wants what he wants—and he wants it now, now, now.

Yes, from drinking too much beer and generally being a tyrannical egomaniac.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!

It's my world, you all just live in it.

Remember, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening

Had I renounced the Western world? Renunciation, at least as Buddhists use the term, is a much-misunderstood concept. It is not about giving up what is good and beautiful. How foolish that would be! Rather it is about disentangling oneself from the unsatisfactory and moving with determination toward what matters most. It is about freedom and meaning—freedom from mental confusion and self-centered afflictions, meaning through insight and loving-kindness.

He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

I hate you, I thought, I hate you with your bloody nature-boy airs and your bloody forced-march voyage of bloody discovery. I wondered then if Finn's personality worked on everyone, or whether I had just the the right sort of mentality to fall in step with a self-centered hermit-boy crab murderer.

His eldest daughter, Alice, once described her father as wanting to be the "bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral."1

Survival machines could evolve to be completely selfish and self-centered, but there is something that keeps their pure selfishness in check, and that is the fact that other survival machines are inclined "to hit back" if attacked, to retaliate if exploited, or to attempt to use or abuse other survival machines first.

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

A self that is only differentiated—not integrated—may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person whose self is based exclusively on integration will be connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.

GOOD People are GOOD People. Selfish, Greedy, Self-Centered, and Evil People will always be the same. Money has nothing to do with it.

all thoughts, no matter how altruistic, always end up being self-centred in some way if you give them long enough

We learned to be discreet. It helped that nobody really cares about anyone but themselves anyway.

There is a touch of selfishness in everyone. Everyone wants only the best for themselves, in this world or in the hereafter.