Robin Marantz Henig Quotes

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

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

There are lots of things about me that aren't like the rest of my friends. But I try to learn as much about millennials as I can so I can stay afloat among them.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are and how the filming of ourselves and thinking that we're interesting enough to care about is odd.

It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.

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.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

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

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.

Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I just want everyone else to. I certainly would not be lonely. It would be exciting never having to listen to another person again but just my own self droning on and on. That's why I write a blog. And I read it, too.

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

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.

I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

What I learned was that we Millennials possess one factor that supposedly sets us apart from those who came before us. Is it incredibly clear skin, since most of us took Accutane at some point? No. The recurring description of our generation is 'entitled.'

I think my perspective on my age is really irrelevant.

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.