Romesh Ranganathan Quotes

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

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

I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.

When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.

Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

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

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

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

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

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

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

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.

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

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

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.

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.

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.