Ego-Centric Quotes

Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Everyone just needs to get over themselves.

I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one who made it happen. There's been a lot of those books that didn't really interest me much.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

I'm just focused on me.

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

You're not the center of the universe, you know.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.

I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland.

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

Big egos have little ears.

Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

I'm not interested in creating a self-aggrandizing home base for myself, for my artistic foibles and interests.

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.