Quotes About Egocentric

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

These are people who are eager to complain (or brag) about what's going on in their lives, but when the conversation shifts to you, they become uninterested and suddenly need to go.

I am very much an only child, meaning I am self-reliant, egocentric, sociable. I had my mother, father, and an uncle who lived with us, all doting on me.

The mind is an instrument made up of universal consciousness, egocentric consciousness, societal consciousness, along with education, values, virtues, judgment and wisdom.

Give me needy emotional whining bullshit. Flash. Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle. Christ.

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

Why does the egocentric system feel so much easier and more natural to handle? Simply because we always know where 'in front of' us is and where 'behind' and 'left' and 'right' are. We don't need a map or a compass to work this out, we don't need to look at the sun or the North Star, we just feel it, because the egocentric system of coordinates is based directly on our own body and our immediate visual field.

I always liked church. I was one of those kids who was desperate for the statue of Mary to talk to me, which is a very egotistical approach to your faith. I just wanted somebody to pay attention to me.

The hard core of human egotism is hardly to be dislodged except rudely.

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer. But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.

Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.

Listening to a sermonizer who above all loves to hear himself sermonize is about as much fun as having your toes sheared off

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only For Me . Am I the only one who had this queer deep sense as a kid? -- that everything exterior to me existed only insofar as it affected me somehow? -- that all things were somehow, via some occult adult activity, specially arranged for my benefit?

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.

The Cortas are the most egocentric, narcissist, arrogant – outright weird – pack of fucks I have ever met,' Marina says. 'And every second I am away from them, it kills me.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.

Some women never talk about other women; they are too busy talking about themselves.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Io sono un artista e ciò significa che posso essere egocentrico quanto mi pare.

A very young child cannot understand that his dad is a sick alcoholic. Children are limited in logical ability. Their earliest way of thinking is through feelings (felt thought). Children are also egocentric. This doesn't mean they are selfish in the usual meaning of that word. They are not morally selfish. Egocentric thinking means that a child will take everything personally. Even if a parent dies, a child can personalize it.