I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
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I think the narcissism comes from the industry side of things. The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
“Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term… — Donald W. Black Copy Share Image
Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
“In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic… — Amelia Jones Copy Share Image
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“Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to… — George K. Simon Jr Copy Share Image
“Simply because a person has a more avoidant attachment style does not in and of itself make them a narcissist. Second, “avoidant”… — Annie Tanasugarn Copy Share Image
“A girl who travels will need someone that questions her, not too little, and not too much. She’ll need someone to read… — lauren klarfeld Copy Share Image
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“A narcissist, on the other hand, is the exact opposite of an empath. Emotionally, narcissists are like brick walls who see and… — Mateo Sol Copy Share Image
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Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Narcissism is a fact of life - it's a natural part of growing older, right? It's a part of your development. So… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
“All we need to release our inner God is a pulpit and an audience, both of which the Internet supplies in great… — Elias Aboujaoude Md Copy Share Image
What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone… — James Woods Copy Share Image
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“This vivid consciousness of not being able to be or to do but one thing at a time purifies our demands of… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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I'm totally a narcissist, so I was doing all this performance and having lots of weird ego time, and learning to set… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too… — Dave Zirin Copy Share Image
“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Listen, young people, I understand narcissism - clearly. But at least I have the decency to hate myself. And that's what's missing… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
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