Self Centered Quotes - Page 4

• Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which and set us up for failure. Self esteem is a strong motivator to work hard. Self esteem is related to mental health and happiness.

  Glenn R. Schiraldi

  Strong, Self Esteem, Selfish

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• I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Kids, Self, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta because I knew I would be shunned if I came back without him, then I am despicable. If I held them out because I loved him, I am still self-centered, although forgivable. But if I held them out to defy the capitol, I am someone of worth. The trouble is, I don't know exactly what was going on inside me at that moment.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Self, Who I Am

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

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• Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

  Joko Beck

  Self, Joy, Ordinary

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• So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Powerful, Reality

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• I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

  Cary Grant

  Self, Giving, Experience

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• I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.

  Norman Rockwell

  Baseball, Mother, Kids

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• It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Thinking, Self

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• Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?

  Rick Warren

  Humble, Self, Purpose

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• The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control. My heart aches for America and its deceived people. The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. In Jonah's day, Nineveh was the lone world superpower-wealthy, unconcerned, and self-centered. When the Prophet Jonah finally traveled to Nineveh and proclaimed God's warning, people heard and repented. I believe the same thing can happen once again, this time in our nation. It's something I long for.

  Billy Graham

  Believe, Heart, Self

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• I'd rather be on this side of the camera. I feel more comfortable. I'd rather keep myself centered and keep my ego as tepid as possible. Because you can get a big head walking around here.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Ego, Cameras, Sides

  Source: collider.com

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• It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.

  Bill Reid

  Attitude, Believe, Ravens

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• I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.

  Chuck Lorre

  Beautiful, Children, Kids

  "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series) The Thanksgiving Decoupling". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Reality, Self

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Most strong players are completely self-centered.... They are blind to how other people feel or else simply don't care.

  Joel Lautier

  Strong, Player, Self

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• I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Self, Gutters, Littles

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• I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

  Denis Leary

  Self, Greedy, Stills

  "Denis Leary Talks THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and Final Season of RESCUE ME, Confirms He’s in SPIDER-MAN Sequels". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 6, 2011.

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• We all get self-centered.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Self

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• Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

  David A. Bednar

  Self, People, Bless

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• The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it.

  Eric Butterworth

  Lying, Focus, Secret

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• For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.

  Sengcan

  Self, Doubt, Mind

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• Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Self, Feelings, Too Much

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, Self, Ordinary

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• I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Believe, Land

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.117, Beacon Press

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