David Bohm Quotes

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

The world calls me conceited. The world is in error. I trace all the blunders of my life to sacrificing my own party to that of others.

The only vowel I'm concerned with is 'I.'

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.

I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

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.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.

I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" - that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.