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  • Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

    Art   People   Hip Hop  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

  • Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.

    Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

    Giving Up   Hero   People  
  • The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

  • In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform, from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions.

    Real   People   Firsts  
    Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.541, Shambhala Publications
  • Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.

    Children   Watches   Want  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I do my job, and I do what I’m paid to do and I’m always prepared. I prepare by learning the text so well that when I show up, I’m relaxed and the performance sort of happens. Now whether that’s good or bad, I don’t know... Whatever I say is going to sound very egocentric and self centered anyway so I’d better shut up.

    Jobs   Self   Sound  
    "Interview: Anthony Hopkins (The World’s Fastest Indian)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. January 31, 2006.
  • All too many men still seem to believe, in a rather naïve and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women.

    Sex   Believe   Men  
    Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.273, Seven Stories Press
  • If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

  • The moment we use the term 'help', a kind of egocentric idea enters into us. If we help someone, that means we are in a superior position. When we help, we feel that we are one step ahead or one step higher than the ones that we are helping. But if we serve someone, then we offer our capacity with humility, on the strength of our loving concern and oneness. So let us use the proper term, 'service'.

    Mean   Humility   Oneness  
  • One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

    Diary entry, October 5, 1962.
  • Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

    Real   Healthy   Ego  
    FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Dec 09, 2013
  • Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

    Strong   Thinking   Years  
  • Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.39, Open Road Media
  • It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

  • I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond I think. I don't know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me just a little bit?

    Girl   Selfish   Thinking  
  • The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job

  • Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Assignment in Eternity”, Pocket Books
  • What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization.

  • when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

    Dance   Art   Dancing  
    Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
  • As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.

    Practice   Games   Adults  
    Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.62, Simon and Schuster
  • God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are.

    Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.12, Franciscan Media
  • If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

  • Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.

  • Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

  • Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.

    Love You   Self   Trying  
    Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco
  • What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

    Country   Zero   Years  
    Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.105, Shambhala Publications
  • Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

    Kings   Writing   Heart  
    Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.271, Simon and Schuster
  • An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

    Learning   Past   Drawing  
    Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1953). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy”
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