Words matter. These are the best Self-Centered Quotes from famous people such as Rainer Weiss, Dalai Lama, Matthew Perry, Pete Holmes, John Templeton, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
I’ve certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.
I’ll admit that I’m self-centered – all of us are – but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.
It’s self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
It can get really messy inside my head, and it’s usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for quitting are just lame. I wouldn’t want anybody else to talk to myself the way that I talk to myself.
The funny thing about the people I don’t like – they’re very self-centered.
It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he’s going to be.
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!
The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country’s ever produced.
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
I think that in today’s world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
It’s good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place. But I kept on acting, and eventually, I just dropped out of school and continued acting.
I’m still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.
I like kindness. Who doesn’t? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.
If you run for mayor, people say you’re being egotistical. If you decide you won’t run for mayor, people say you’re being self-centered and egotistical.
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It’s a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.
I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn’t so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don’t want to play that person in real life. Because then people won’t like me so much.
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.
When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered.
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
As artists, it’s tempting to forget the audience’s needs. Too often, we’re self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We’re prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.
Actors are inherently self-centered.
I don’t want to tell your story because you’re a insensitive, self-centered moron. I’ve told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there’s hope.
I think people find it so easy to write off teenagers and millennials as just being like these shallow, self-centered people who don’t have anything real going on and who are always just on their cell phones. But being a teenager is really hard.
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.
