Quotes About Self-importance

So let me get this straight," she said. "You're telling me nothing about why you're here, but you expect me to bring you into our kingdom and buy you a drink. NightWings really do think highly of themselves, don't they?" "What if I bought you that drink?" he offered.

Life's all about 'me' anyway

As long as we don't want to be honest and kind with ourselves, then we are always going to be infants. When we begin just to try to accept ourselves, the ancient burden of self-importance lightens up considerably. Finally there's room for genuine inquisitiveness, and we find we have an appetite for what's out there.

That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem. Self-importance is like a prison for us, limiting us to the world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up very dissatisfied.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

You're not seeing anything, saying anything. The weird paradox is that you think you're at the center of things, and that makes your opinions more valuable, but you yourself are becoming less vibrant. I bet you haven't done anything offscreen in months.

Don't flatter yourself to think this is your doing. Your problem is that you think things have happened for the first time to you, and that you're the fulcrum from which all people and the current world pivot.

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's. "And

a quick intelligence he squanders on an insatiable need to advance some impression of himself—that

It's the automatic, unconscious way that I experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when I'm operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that I am the center of the world and that my immediate needs and feelings are what should determine the world's priorities.

The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.

All I can say is that there is indeed a crisis here. We cannot speak to one another in a meaningful way, every one of us is a leader, a general of the army, a king, a president, the greatest thinker of all time, and so on and so forth. This is the curse of the Armenian race.

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

After all, would the world really miss this fatuous little suppository, with his preening self-confidence and emetic cuteness?

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

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There are too many people who consider themselves far too important. And yet not one of us is anything but a grain of sand in the desert, a speck of dust in the universe.