The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful. — Dr Gregory House Copy Share Image
Millennials in particular get a lot of flack for their supposed entitlement and narcissism, but these evaluations have never matched my experience… — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are… — Clotilde Hesme Copy Share Image
Teens have a sensational narcissism and genuinely believe that their experiences are unique and can't be explained to adults. But we forgive… — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it.… — Andy Dunn 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
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
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
“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
“For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of… — Erik Pevernagie 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
“I have so much knowledge tucked away about how to protect yourself, for even if you are an empath full of peace… — Donna G. Bourgeois 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
“The whole idea of "leaners" and "lifters" is the central teaching of the right wing ideologue, Ayn Rand, who penned books like… — Anne Manne Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“There came a time in my life when I had to admit to myself that I have some very clear narcissistic tendencies.… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“The vicious demand for happiness, regardless of circumstance, is not what one expects from one's own. Life is hard enough. Requiring a… — Christopher Zenos Copy Share Image
Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Who wouldn’t choose to be the best version of themselves possible? People, by nature, are narcissistic.” He straightened his tie and jacket… — J.M. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool.… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role… — Arinn Dembo Copy Share Image
It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance. — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
“Nancy was as proud as she was critical of her younger daughter. She spoke glowingly about the precocious little girl who said… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words. — Adam Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.” — Joel McDonald Copy Share Image
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
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