Narcissistic Quotes - Page 6

• You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God -- and I believe there is -- that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Selfish, Believe

  "Anne Lamott Distills Prayer Into 'Help, Thanks, Wow'". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 19, 2012.

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• No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.

  Sigmund Freud

  Work, Mean, Reality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.

  Richard Rohr

  Creating, Giving, Ego

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic.

  Kelli Garner

  Quiet, Psychotic, Brooding

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• My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

  Mike Leigh

  Selfish, Resilience, Acting

  "Mike Leigh: 'Creativity is a life-blood for people'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

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• Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

  Jake Owen

  Football, Team, Believe

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• Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania, and then go on to live our lives and accept our disturbing thoughts? We need to accept our vulnerabilities and have love for our imperfections. If you can want what you have, I think you're on your way.

  Francis Levy

  Thinking, Imperfection, Impossible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.

  Steve Inskeep

  Self, Two, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I know I'm missing something, but those who have children are missing what I get to do. And frankly, I'm probably missing more of what I don't want than what I do. Some may call me selfish or narcissistic, but I don't want to spend my time going to PTA meetings. The only way I could have children and do the work I do is to have a househusband - and I'm not attracted to a househusband. I'd rather affect children with the work I do.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Selfish, Missing

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• I've never been one of those who is attracted to straight men. Like I always said, 'you're straight, so there's no point' and I have friends who are pursuers of the heterosexual men. They see it as conquests, which I think is a different thing and a more narcissistic thing. And not necessarily a healthy thing.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Men, Healthy

  "Homoerotic Charge of 'Hannibal'". Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. April 22, 2014.

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• I think that in poetry personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

  Sylvia Plath

  Believe, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?

  Reid Hoffman

  Powerful, Land, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Narcissistic personalities usually do do better than you and me and the average person. We've always seen it in the office. The person who speaks up more in meetings, the person who's charismatic, who can sell an idea with more excitement and energy.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Ideas, Average, Office

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• Some of songs are autobiographical and some of it is more telling a story from someone else's perspective. It's healthy for me to do that because, oftentimes, it can become too narcissistic if I'm trying to express myself all of the time. My problems are what I'm going through and sometimes it's nice to take a step back and feel what someone else is going through and that can help.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Song, Nice, Perspective

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. People taking pictures of what they eat and showing them on their Facebook. People assume that people have a level of interest in what they're doing that's maybe far greater than it is, although there is an audience for all that stuff.

  Lena Dunham

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.

  Negin Farsad

  World, Comedy, Policy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

  T.C. Boyle

  Alcohol, Drug, Depressive

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.

  Ian Bremmer

  Believe, Thinking, Form

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I know that a lot of songwriters write about a break up. It's a really popular topic. I think heartbreak is the number one thing people write about. I could say that's narcissistic somehow because they want everybody to admire how pained they are. But I actually do think there's something beautiful and uplifting about knowing that you're not the only one who is experiencing or has experienced that kind of devastating loss. Everyone's experienced that.

  Mirah

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it.

  Alexander Lowen

  Children, Needs, May

  Alexander Lowen (1978). “The Language of the Body”

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• I admire narcissism in Momus and others who "own" it and use it as a way to explore ideas/themselves and also as a form of humor. I don't think of myself as narcissistic, but I'm definitely incredibly self absorbed. I guess I wonder if seeing the world through the lens of yourself is necessarily less valid than other ways of thinking/seeing though.

  Marie Calloway

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?

  Ian Astbury

  Stars, Party, Rocks

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

  Karl Kraus

  Memories, Vanity, Objectivity

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesn’t actually affect the external world. Not only is it ineffective, but it is also a very narcissistic practice… why would a 'God' change its 'Divine Plan' to accommodate any person’s wishes?

  David G. McAfee

  Prayer, Feel Better, Practice

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Jun 29, 2014

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• The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically.

  Tom Robbins

  Technology, Wrinkles, Rose

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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