Richard Rohr Quotes

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

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.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

The dilemma I have is that everything I do at work is all about me, and at what point is that selfish? I'm just talking and singing about myself, or I'm standing on a stage and hoping that everybody likes me. Obviously, it's also about the music and feeling and connecting; I know it's deeper than that.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and only Trump.

There is a perspective out there that I'm very much all about myself... I just live with it.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.

When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump.

Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.