Egocentric Quotes - Page 3

• En mi opinión, la raza humana (soi disant) es cruel, idiota, sentimental, depredadora, desagradecida, fea, engreída y egocéntrica hasta la médula, y el descubrimiento ocasional de una excepción aislada es tan deliciosamente sorprendente como encontrar de repente una nuez de Brasil en lo que sabes que son dos kilos de cremas de vainilla. Estos momentos gloriosos, aunque quizá no hagan que la vida merezca realmente la pena, al menos la hacen más agradable.

  Noel Coward

  Engreído, Descubrimiento, Tuercas

  Noel Coward (2008). "Las cartas de Noel Coward", p.39, Vintage

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• Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

  Michael Eisner

  Strong, Thinking, Years

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• Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.

  Christian Finnegan

  Actors, Enough

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• If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

  Joel Salatin

  Appreciate, Giving, Soul

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• Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.

  Cathleen McGuigan

  Book, Thinking, Lunch

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• But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Men, Self, Personality

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• A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

  E. B. White

  Style, Spirit, Imagine

  William Strunk Jr. y E.B. White (1962). "Los Elementos de Estilo"

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• Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.

  Nick Offerman

  Children, Watches, Want

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Jesus, Powerful

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• Quizá el acontecimiento más poderoso al que se enfrenta la humanidad hoy en día sea un gran despertar a escala planetaria que lleva milenios gestándose. Los humanos nos encontramos en medio de un profundo avance como especie hacia una forma superior de conciencia global que ha ido emergiendo a través de culturas, religiones y visiones del mundo a lo largo de los siglos. Este despertar de la conciencia global es nada menos que un cambio, una maduración, desde patrones de vida más egocéntricos a una forma superior de patrones de vida integrales y dialógicos.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Potente, Cultura Religión, Profundo

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• It was fun yet challenging to play the dual roles. I'm a really nice guy, and the character [of Dubious] is egocentric and hard-edged, so I had to pull out the negative aspects of me to attribute to the role.

  Carson Grant

  Fun, Nice, Character

  "Who Got the Part: Carson Grant" by Leesa Davis, Backstage, November 9, 2006.

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• Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

  Sylvia Plath

  Jealousy, Selfish, Writing

  Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Frances Monson McCullough (1991). “The journals of Sylvia Plath”

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• Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

  Doris Grumbach

  Giving, Creative, Promise

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.

  Troy Polamalu

  Crazy, Reality, World

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• The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job

  John A. Keel

  Bible, Jobs, Supernatural Beings

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• You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.

  Federico Lenz

  Understanding, India, Ponies

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• Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

  Evan Esar

  Together, Egotism, Persons

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• As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.

  Jean Piaget

  Practice, Games, Adults

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• The moment we use the term 'help', a kind of egocentric idea enters into us. If we help someone, that means we are in a superior position. When we help, we feel that we are one step ahead or one step higher than the ones that we are helping. But if we serve someone, then we offer our capacity with humility, on the strength of our loving concern and oneness. So let us use the proper term, 'service'.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mean, Humility, Oneness

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• All too many men still seem to believe, in a rather naïve and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women.

  Shere Hite

  Sexo, Creer, Hombres

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.273, Seven Stories Press

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• I think everyone is a little egocentric, but when I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego.

  Adriana Lima

  Thinking, Ego, Littles

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• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  Gary Hamel

  Real, Decision, Rebel

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• What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Russia, Use, Interest

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

  Ken Wilber

  Country, Zero, Years

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Hendrix, Ends, Feels

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