Meghan Daum Quotes

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.

Every one praises his own saint.

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

Ever the blameless narcissist, Trump always insists that the buck stops wherever convenient - for him, personally.

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label.

There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.

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

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public …. A man must be his own trumpeter—he must write or dictate paragraphs of praise in the newspapers; he must dress, have a retinue and equipage; he must ostentatiously publish to the world his own writings with his name, make the mob stare and gape, and perpetuate his fame.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.

Tweeting - let's be honest: it's like I'm the center of the universe; it's all about me. Everybody is listening to my every thought, and my current thought at this very moment is... it's ridiculous.