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If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming Egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid. -- Pope Francis
All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. -- Andrea Corr
I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric. -- Ana Tijoux
Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together. -- Evan Esar
It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. -- Katharine Hepburn
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves. -- John C. Maxwell
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. -- Evelyn Waugh
Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours. -- Nick Offerman
I think everyone is a little egocentric, but when I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego. -- Adriana Lima
Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer. -- Christian Finnegan
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. -- Lizzie Brochere
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. -- Maya Angelou
...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase in ethnocentric love? -- Ken Wilber
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. -- Marjane Satrapi
But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness. -- Joel Salatin
Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human. -- Bo Bennett
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail. -- Bob Newhart
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric. -- Michael Eisner
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along. -- Nigel Kennedy
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler. -- Fulton J. Sheen
A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day. -- E. B. White
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. -- Zach Galligan
Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess. -- Cathleen McGuigan
My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon. -- Sue Miller
Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric. -- Troy Polamalu
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors. -- Gary Hamel
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place. -- Terence McKenna
As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint. -- Jean Piaget
You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony. -- Frederick Lenz
"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting. -- Aldous Huxley
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead. -- Carl Jung
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual. -- Terence McKenna
Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet. -- Philip Zimbardo
It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires. -- Jean Piaget
People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests. -- Duop Chak Wuol
What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit. -- Molly Ivins
Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile? -- Sylvia Plath
God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are. -- Mark Hart
Toddlers are so powerful and so egocentric and teenagers are also so powerful, so egocentric. -- Laura Huxley
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. -- Pat Conroy
The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings. -- Stephen King
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. -- Idries Shah
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. -- Johnny Carson
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it. -- Joseph Brodsky
Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose. -- Doris Grumbach
I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was. -- Art Buchwald
I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature. -- John Travolta
We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic. -- Gary Chapman
The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job -- John A. Keel
All too many men still seem to believe, in a rather naÃ¯ve and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women. -- Shere Hite
when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art. -- Twyla Tharp
Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music. -- Macklemore
Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand. -- Selma Fraiberg
Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself. -- Frederick Buechner

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