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
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
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
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
“He had made a fairly unambiguous pass at her, as she was getting out of the cab. But event that had come… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean,… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“Counterintuitively, self-hatred is one of the leading symptoms of clinical narcissism. Only by telling yourself and the world how much you hate… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
“An Australian study entitled ‘Who Uses Facebook?’ found a significant correlation between the use of Facebook and narcissism. ‘Facebook users have higher… — Tim Chester Copy Share Image
If I post a selfie, and you like it, it's of little cost to you, but it feels great to me. That… — Kim Stolz Copy Share Image
“One of the easiest ways to discover if someone is compatible with you is to gauge their emotional intelligence. Are they a… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
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
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
“He was happy enough to stay in this jumbled, lively place where the drinks were cheap and the band was loud and… — Richard Yates 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
“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
“At a moment when we must face too much self-righteousness and narcissism on our path, it is a soothing relief for our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think,… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“And the problem was that there was a positive epidemic of narcissism, encouraged by commercial manipulation and by the shallow values of… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Narcissism is a psychological term that encompasses self-love, self-absorption and self-centeredness. This is even referred to as a mental disorder where one… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Leaders are not modest, and more importantly, the extensive social science research on narcissism, self-promotion, and similar constructs shows that these qualities… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“pathological narcissists can lose touch with reality in subtle ways that become extremely dangerous over time. When they can’t let go of… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
“Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger “decline in the social contract”… "As a scholar, I'm very… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“(a quote from a survivor) Read up on the psychology of abuse. Listen to music. Being alone to process without chatter. Usually… — Shahida Arabi Copy Share Image
“Facebook users have higher levels of total narcissism, exhibitionism, and leadership than Facebook nonusers,” the study’s authors wrote. “In fact, it could… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
“Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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