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Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. -- Marianne Williamson
You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career. -- Howard Stern
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. -- Germaine Greer
It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm. -- Jeffrey Kluger
There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?' -- Susan Sullivan
I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up. -- Kelly Clarkson
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(I think this will be the title of my new book)I Learned Everything I Needed to Know About Narcissistic Personality Disorder on My Last Date -- Brenda Priddy
Why am I with you? You're so conceited, arrogant-""Narcissistic," I add, "attractive, lovable, brilliant.""That wasn't an invitation for you to compliment yourself.""No? My bad, I thought we were listing my best qualities. -- Krista Ritchie
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don't care what you think unless it is about me. -- Kurt Cobain
Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic -- Rumi
I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic. -- Bjork
No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog. -- Tucker Max
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic. -- Zoe Saldana
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. -- Sam Vaknin
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. -- Todd Solondz
I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish. -- James Woods
New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist. -- Sloane Crosley
We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in. -- Criss Jami
I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love. -- Emily Levine
Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling. -- Geoffrey West
Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha! -- Marina and the Diamonds
I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary. -- Brene Brown
The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic. -- Rod Serling
I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless. -- Hari Kunzru
If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place. -- Koren Zailckas
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
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors. -- Mike Leigh
Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation. -- Warren Beatty
What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school. -- Koren Zailckas
I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later. -- John Cusack
Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion -- Margot Anand
I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride. -- Ryan Kwanten
I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing. -- Chevy Chase
I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd chalk it up to that narcissistic personality disorder laces with a smidgen of schizophrenia. Your mother would be proud. -- Darynda Jones
We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is. -- Anne Lamott
I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself. -- Omar Sharif
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. -- Barry Hannah
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music. -- Aimee Mann
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror. -- Vera Wang
My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. -- Evgeny Morozov
Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part. -- Marcus Buckingham
One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic. -- Robert Dallek
In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her. -- Alison Bechdel
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic. -- Rod Serling
Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic -- Dennis Prager
I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. -- Joni Mitchell
Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic -- Nicki Minaj
I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem. -- Lorraine Bracco
I used to play a narcissistic conservative pundit. Now I'm just a narcissist. -- Stephen Colbert
A lot of pictures of yourself - you know, it's a little narcissistic. -- Barack Obama
Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic. -- Chris Hardwick
But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern -- Dean Koontz
The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!" -- George Carlin
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. -- Julia Glass
It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility. -- Alan Cohen
America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones. -- Koren Zailckas
I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think. -- Marjane Satrapi
It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature. -- Koren Zailckas
I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera. -- David Brooks
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. -- Richard Hofstadter
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I can't do negative, needy, or narcissistic anymore. Oh wait, I can still do the last one, aw nuts. -- Bob Saget
The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state. -- Walton Goggins
'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state. -- Walton Goggins
Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them. -- Michael Crichton
Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was. -- Gore Vidal
I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic. -- Kelli Garner
How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic? -- Billy Porter
Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. -- Jason Isaacs
If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them. -- Alain Badiou
[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people. -- Steve Inskeep
The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic. -- Rod Serling
Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it. -- Alexander Lowen
There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them. -- Ann Coulter
If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need. -- Arinn Dembo
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning. -- Alice Miller
I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself. -- Toni Collette
I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily. -- Mark Leyner
You don't want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate. -- Jodhi May
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party. -- Dennis Lehane
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about. -- Stanley Crouch
Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception. -- T.C. Boyle
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. -- Sylvia Plath
The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore. -- Sigmund Freud
There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up. -- Perry Brass
I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me. -- Steve Maraboli
Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren't interested. -- Emily Giffin
What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful? -- Ian Astbury
It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring. -- Erica Jong
People are very narcissistic. It's not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you. -- Bill Maher
We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms. -- Beth Moore
A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. -- R. Alan Woods
It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be? -- Robert Gottlieb
When sex and money are fused in the service of exploitation, the two create an even more destructive form of rage of a type often exhibited in narcissistic and potentially psychopathic populations. -- Debra L. Kaplan
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world. -- Sigmund Freud
I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything! -- Tavi Gevinson
The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically. -- Tom Robbins
We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there. -- Lenny Kravitz
There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you. -- David G. McAfee

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