John Owen Quotes

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

I never really look at other people; I just worry about myself.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

We all get self-centered.

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

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

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

I am a very selfish person.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

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

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

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

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