Self Obsessed Quotes

• Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Self, Boring

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• God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

  Max Lucado

  Full Of Yourself

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• The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

  Banksy

  Art, Hate, Creativity

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• At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

  Ben Gibbard

  Regret, Taken, Thinking

  "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I just don't want to be self-obsessed.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Self, Want, Obsessed

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• You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

  Annie Lennox

  Self, Ugly, Superficial

  "The Look: Annie Lennox". Interview with Harry Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2014.

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• A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Two Daughters, Hermione

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• We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Stupid, Self, People

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• The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Death, Religious, Atheist

  "The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night". Book by John Payne, Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13., 1885.

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• The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

  Ben Elton

  Hippie, Thinking, Self

  Ben Elton (2008). “Stark: Satirical Thriller”, p.34, Random House

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• Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

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• Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

  Neil Gaiman

  Self, People, Empathy

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.12, HarperCollins

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• I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

  Kajol

  Writing, Self, People

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• Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.

  Nick Lowe

  Couple, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 27, 2007.

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• I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Thinking, Self, Wish

  "Pretty Deadly creators Kelly Sue DeConnick, Emma Rios, on second arc". Interview with Andrea Towers, ew.com. November 17, 2015.

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• The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Self

  Anne Lamott (2012). “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers”, p.22, Penguin

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• I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Thinking, Self, Average

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Self, People

  "'Proud non-reader' rapper Kanye West turns author". Interview with Mark Egan, www.reuters.com. May 27, 2009.

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• We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

  Princess Superstar

  Helping Others, Self, Speak

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

  David Attenborough

  Self, People, Goes On

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• I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Daughter, Stupid

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• How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

  David Sheff

  Self, Obsessed, Considerate

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away.

  Max Tundra

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Unique, Self, Natural

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

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