One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to…

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

— Ruth Ozeki

I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.

— Misty Copeland

Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter…

— John C. Maxwell

I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as real…

— Jane Jacobs

We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of…

— Christopher Hitchens

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

— Shahrukh Khan

The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation of life…

— J. I. Packer

Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not…

— Kenny Smith

Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves are what's…

— Jane Hirshfield

To be politically activated is to dare to care about the happiness of others and that is just about the most important activity anyone…

— Sharon Gannon

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down…

— Jacque Fresco

I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is…

— Laura Benanti

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

— Richard Paul Evans

We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must…

— Jacque Fresco

So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine…

— Lee Strobel