Gina Schock Quotes

Of course there are other prima donnas around. So many of my colleagues, younger ones, are wonderful.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

Egos turn me off, big time.

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.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.

I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

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