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Quotes About Self-involved

We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
with no apparent sub-surface of the mind, no consciousness of others, no recognition of any people, places or situations except in uncluttered direct relation to herself and how it can serve or disserve her." Quite a change
~ Andrea di Robilant
My character on 'Voyager,' because of the way he was presented, I could go either way. I could be a real buffoon, a windbag, be self-involved, and we could get a lot of comic mileage from him. However, the audience accepted me with gravity when I was in a dire situation, so they would follow me in comic or dramatic stories.
~ Robert Picardo
Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.
~ Marcus Buckingham
By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress.
~ Lionel Shriver
Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they've closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what they want and what they think they need. They rarely do anything for anybody else unless they have an ulterior goal in mind. They are self-involved and self-centered.
~ Joel Osteen
Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.
~ Gloria Stuart
There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.
~ Kelly Reilly
And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.
~ Molly Ringwald
at times the city can feel self-satisfied, even solipsistic
~ Barry Eisler
Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.
~ Harlan Coben
That's where I started to discover that I had an ego," says Barlow. "I just became so involved with writing my own songs and really getting into my own sound of things. Just getting totally self-involved. It was pretty great.
~ Michael Azerrad
That's where I started to discover that I had an ego," says Barlow. "I just became so involved with writing my own songs and really getting into my own sound of things. Just getting totally self-involved. It was pretty great. So when I played for Dinosaur, I was able to play for Dinosaur—do my thing and be quiet.
~ Michael Azerrad
He had ceased to be interested in anyone but himself.
~ Iris Murdoch
Many times, people who are self-involved or bullies, it stems from a place of hurt and insecurity within oneself.
~ Jessica Rothe
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
~ Adam Driver
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Americans are so egocentric.
~ Mark Kurlansky