Marcus Buckingham Quotes

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.

A lot of pictures of yourself - you know, it's a little narcissistic.

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

I'm selfish.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.

I think the selfie age is kind of making fame annoying.

If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.

I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond I think. I don't know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me just a little bit?

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. People taking pictures of what they eat and showing them on their Facebook. People assume that people have a level of interest in what they're doing that's maybe far greater than it is, although there is an audience for all that stuff.

Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?

After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

Life's all about 'me' anyway

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

If you hadn't noticed, I like to talk about myself.

We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are, where we have to market ourselves to get through life. We're in social media, where we broadcast highlight - highlight reels of our own lives on Facebook.