Quotes About Self-absorbed

I don't really give a damn about too much other than myself.

there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others, as an insult.

Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.

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

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

And I respect actors but the job demands that you have to be self-absorbed. You have to concentrate a lot on yourself and I think that was something that never interested me.

Depending on who it is, but I can't stand men who brag about themselves, and all they do all day is talk about themselves.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn't get into this business because we like people.

There may be no more Sun Kings but there are still plenty of people who believe the sun revolves around them.

Secrets and silences make life more real: the individual, self-absorbed and inwardly musing, taking himself very seriously, radiates a contagious aura: the tacit communication that the serious and the meaningful exist.

I crave the variety, I really do. I'd probably say standup as I think that's what I do best, if I may say so. But it can be a really self-absorbed, obsessive way to live your life, whereas doing theatre is very collaborative and creative and intense, I'd hate to miss out on that.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

In the present day, we follow Peri on to the dinner party, where she arrives stained and disheveled but determined to dismiss everyone's concern. That's easy because the other guests are extraordinarily wealthy and wholly self-absorbed... I kept wanting more depth from Dr. Azur's presentations. Finally, I realized that's the point: He's a classic master teacher in the Dead Poets Society mode: iconoclastic but gimmicky, glazed with intellectuality but essentially narcissistic.

It's a tough job being somebody's personal assistant. You have to anwser their phone, manage their correspondence, run their errands, pay their bills, arrange their schedule, and basically do whatever tasks, menial to major, they are too busy or self absorbed or distracted or pampered or disinterested to do themselves.

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

I find that kind of "look at me" narcissism terribly inconsiderate. If you need attention that badly, set yourself on fire.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. . . . I am a proud non-reader of books. —KANYE WEST (Reuters, May 2009) This book be dedicated to Kanye West, because he'll never fuckin' read it.

Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

The Satrap will cede you to Chalced, or sell you to New Traders without even a moment of consideration. He doesn't care, Althea. Not about his honor, or his ancestor's pledge or the people of Bingtown. He doesn't even care about the citizens of Jamaillia. He is so engrossed in himself, he cannot perceive anything except as it relates to him.

How typical that is, you proud and self-absorbed creature! This is indeed the man who enjoys taking an axe to the self-esteem of others, but cries out when a needle touches his own.

they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.