David Attenborough Quotes

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

We all get self-centered.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

I think players maybe now want to look more pretty than anything else. What I feel disappointed about when I watch games is too many players think of themselves. Still good players, maybe better than we were, but looking too much at themselves.

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

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

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.

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

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

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

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

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.

I'm not interested in people being interested in me.

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

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.

Life's all about 'me' anyway

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.