Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.
Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.
I hate everything which is not in myself.
I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.
Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.
I don't want to sound egotistical, but I'm egotistical to an extent.
Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"
As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.
No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.
People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].
The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.
I don't think about other people. They are not walking in my shoes. They are not paying my bills. What makes me happy is when I do what I like to do, for me.
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.
