James Harvey Robinson Quotes

Nothing is more to me than myself.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.

I find myself fascinating.

If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

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

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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.

I discovered myself!

But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.