Word for thinking only of yourself

I was trying to convey my opinion about a person I knew, when I faced this question. I had to describe a person who cared only about himself: his personal well-being, wealth, luxury, happiness are his only priorities in life. He does not really care for his family members, or spare some time or thought to alleviate their problems.

What adjective is best suited to describe such a person? My instantaneous choice was along the lines of self-important or egotistic, but these adjectives intend “thinking highly of oneself ”, which is not what I meant.

Nouns describing such a person are also welcome. I am looking for a word as little disparaging as possible.

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asked Apr 24, 2012 at 13:07

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How about «selfish» or «self-centered.»

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answered Apr 24, 2012 at 13:09

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A narcissist:

A person who is overly self-involved, and often vain and selfish.

The adjective would be narcissistic.

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answered Apr 24, 2012 at 14:06

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Self-absorbed comes to mind. It is defined as: Excessively self-involved.

answered Apr 24, 2012 at 13:11

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You can call such a person egocentric:

thinking only about yourself and not about what other people need or want

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answered Apr 24, 2012 at 13:16

Self-serving is another word that roughly means «only caring about oneself,» as the formal definition for self-serving is «asborbed with oneself.»

answered Apr 24, 2012 at 15:05

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There’s nothing wrong with egoist, or egoistic, for that matter. It fits just fine — yes, it implies that a person has a very high self-esteem, too, but primarily it denotes a person whose actions are governed by self-interest. Such a person doesn’t give much thought to others. EGOIST / EGOCENTRIC would be my choices, widely recognized by all speakers, since these words exist in most languages.

answered Apr 24, 2012 at 13:18

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Self-absorbed: preoccupied with one’s self in some fashion.

Self-involved: Concerned or absorbed primarily or only in one’s own interests or activities.

These can have a very neutral connotation. While many of the responses suggest that a self-absorbed person is uncaring about others, it does not necessarily have to be in a negative sense. For example, that person may be asocial or non-social, rather than antisocial.

Here is an example: «There is a hermit living in that canyon, but he is harmless. He is self-absorbed and minds his own business. You can go there without being bothered.»

answered Apr 24, 2012 at 21:53

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Conceit or Egotist are the best I can think of.

NOAD defines conceit as excessive pride(1) in oneself.

OED defines egotist as a person who is excessively conceited or absorbed in themselves.

(1)PRIDE: a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely ammired. — NOAD

answered Apr 24, 2012 at 13:31

I am going to suggest «uncaring». You could also use «indifferent», and «apathetic», as in:

He is indifferent/apathetic to the concerns of others.

You could also use «unkind», though to some people that might imply actual malice, rather.

answered Apr 24, 2012 at 15:00

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I’d suggest «shallow» as a nice way of saying that they are overly self-involved with superficial priorities.

To use Internet slang to describe this person, they could be described as a «Scumbag Steve» (from Reddit).

The other term that comes up when I think of an excessively selfish person would be douchebag (or douche). However, this is a VERY disparaging term.

answered Apr 24, 2012 at 16:46

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My suggestion : Self-serving and Ego-maniacal.

Reason : I find this choice of the ‘self’ prefixed word most appropriate.

Self-absorbed can be defended as someone just plain oblivious to outer life ;

Self-centered doesn’t emphasize on behaviour or deeds, unlike self-serving, which immediately brings to mind the ‘him/her/my self above all’ .

As for ‘egomaniacal‘, I believe it to be a better fit as opposed to ‘narcissistic‘ because the latter doesn’t necessarily imply the drive for pursuits, only choosing oneself over others, if need be. Not to mention, some people prefer to use — and see the usage of, thereby — the word strictly in a clinical aspect.

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A person who evidences these priorities to clearly could be described as self-interested.

From Oxford Dictionaries:

Motivated by one’s personal interest or advantage, especially without regard for others.

An example:

Years of observation and introspection have led many to the conclusion that people are self-interested creatures.

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Self aware is non-negatively connotative; not all forms of caring for oneself need to be selfish.

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The Answer you are looking for is specifically called a sociopath.

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Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Any human being who does not wish to be part of the masses need only stop making things easy for himself. Let him follow his conscience, which calls out to him: Be yourself! All that you are now doing, thinking, desiring, all that is not you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Sid Mittra

Thinking of only the worse of yourself will eventually destroy you — Sid Mittra

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Steve Maraboli

Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You’re better than that! — Steve Maraboli

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Paulo Coelho

Don’t let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future. — Paulo Coelho

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When you always stay positive, you least worry yourself over anything at all! You only take lessons from negative moments of life, and people who seek to change your positive nature to negative! Don’t ever allow your life to be negative just because of people, things and negative occurrences in life, not even for a brief moment! You are you! You are a positive person; stay positive and be happy! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Henry B. Eyring

The enemy of righteousness also works in little steps, so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only about yourself and how great you are. Just as truth is given to us line upon line and the light brightens slowly as we obey, even so, as we disobey our testimony of truth lessens almost imperceptibly, little by little, and darkness descends so slowly that the proud may easily deny that anything is changing. — Henry B. Eyring

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Christiane Northrup

No matter what you’re feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for it. If you think you’re stupid, then love yourself for feeling that way. It’s a paradox, but it works. To heal, you must be the first one to shine the light of compassion on any areas within you that you feel are unacceptable. — Christiane Northrup

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Sherry Turkle

My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy — about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude-the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude. To experience solitude you must be able to summon yourself by yourself; otherwise you will only know how to be lonely — Sherry Turkle

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Curtis Tyrone Jones

You’re only as good as you’re next thought of yourself. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Joan Rivers

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you’re acting; listen only to yourself. — Joan Rivers

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Bryant McGill

Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should live. How could self-realization possibly be anything other than being yourself? — Bryant McGill

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Panda Bear

I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it’s competitive but only with yourself. With the last one doing well, it made it a challenge to feel like I was improving in some way. — Panda Bear

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Jared Harris

If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it’s important to keep auditioning. I think it’s important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone. — Jared Harris

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Arthur M. Jolly

A little is fine, but the minute you start believing that you’ve picked the only right one out of the 4,200 or so on offer, you need to get a grip on yourself. Once you start thinking that it’s okay to hate someone that chose one of the 4,199 others … snap out of it. — Arthur M. Jolly

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Bob Burg

Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to ‘position’ yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others. — Bob Burg

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Marcus Aurelius

You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind — things that exist only there — and clear out space for yourself: … by comprehending the scale of the world … by contemplating infinite time … by thinking of the speed with which things change — each part of every thing; the narrow space between our birth and death; the infinite time before; the equally unbounded time that follows. — Marcus Aurelius

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Austin Mahone

They’re just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff’s true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself. — Austin Mahone

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Frederick Lenz

What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven’s sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself. — Frederick Lenz

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Megan Fox

I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we could really be amazing if only given a chance. That we could all be loved one day. You can always think of yourself as being transcendent or heroic. I think we all are. — Megan Fox

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By P.D. Ouspensky

You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people’s knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people’s being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being. — P.D. Ouspensky

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Sinead O'Connor

Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us — the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewish people. We all have to forgive and understand the only way to stop the cycle of hate and abuse is not to allow yourself to get caught in it. — Sinead O’Connor

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Mark Victor Hansen

Think positive thoughts, intensely. Grow enthusiastic images, boldly. Speak only wonderful words to yourself, constantly. Feel fantastic, NOW! This colors your view of the world. Like a magnet, you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire. — Mark Victor Hansen

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Cheryl Mendelson

Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits. — Cheryl Mendelson

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Sherrilyn Kenyon

There will always be a part of you that misses her. You’ll see something that reminds you of her and want to tell her about it, only to realize she’s not there anymore. Then you’ll feel her loss all over again. (Ravyn)
You’re not helping me, Ravyn. (Jack)
I know, buddy. But you will eventually make peace with yourself, and that’s the most important thing. Eventually, you’ll even be able to smile again when you think about her. (Ravyn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Karina Halle

That’s where you’re wrong. To really understand music, to love it for what it is, you have to be open-minded and go into everything thinking you might find a new part of yourself. It can only make your heart bigger. — Karina Halle

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Eva Marcille

I’ve learned that I can only live for myself. I cannot be focused on the world’s idea of who they think I am or who I’m supposed to be. I can only be the best me. And if that means that even though I seem eligible and should be in a relationship, maybe I shouldn’t be right now, because I am not emotionally available. It’s knowing yourself and being more in tune with who you are vs. who the world wants you to be. — Eva Marcille

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Robin Hobb

The exercise for centering oneself is a simple one.
Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things.
Then you will find the now. The time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.
Then in that place, you will finally have time to be yourself. — Robin Hobb

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Catherine Carrigan

Discover the truth about your underlying psychic gifts and not only stop thinking of yourself as crazy but also empower yourself to make a major difference in the lives of others. — Catherine Carrigan

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By George Eliot

Well, well, nobody’s perfect, but» — here Mr. Garth shook his head to help out the inadequacy of words — «what I am thinking of is — what it must be for a wife when she’s never sure of her husband, when he hasn’t got a principle in him to make him more afraid of doing the wrong thing by others than of getting his own toes pinched. That’s the long and the short of it, Mary. Young folks may get fond of each other before they know what life is, and they may think it all holiday if they can only get together; but it soon turns into working day, my dear. However, you have more sense than most, and you haven’t been kept in cotton-wool: there may be no occasion for me to say this, but a father trembles for his daughter, and you are all by yourself here. — George Eliot

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Clarice Lispector

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things — the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and — miracle — find yourself walking. — Clarice Lispector

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Curtis Tyrone Jones

You’re only as good as your next thought of yourself. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Bryce Courtenay

Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.’ He looked at me and continued. ‘The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous.’ His piercing blue eyes looked into mine.’ Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life. — Bryce Courtenay

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Paula McLain

There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean’s worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar. — Paula McLain

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Anais Nin

You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers
you’re bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance. — Anais Nin

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Paulo Coelho

I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself look ridiculous?
You don’t always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn’t be concerned about what other people are thinking.
Cry if you need to,it’s good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again … — Paulo Coelho

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Ray N. Kuili

That’s where it all begins. That’s where we all get screwed big time as we grow up. They tell us to think, but they don’t really mean it. They only want us to think within the boundaries they define. The moment you start thinking for yourself — really thinking — so many things stop making any sense. And if you keep thinking, the whole world just falls apart. Nothing makes sense anymore. All rules, traditions, expectations — they all start looking so fake, so made up. You want just get rid of all this stuff and make things right. But the moment you say it, they tell you to shut up and be respectful. And eventually you understand that nobody wants you to really think for yourself.
Ray N. Kuili — Awakening — Ray N. Kuili

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Rooney Mara

There’s only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience. — Rooney Mara

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Mike Scheidt

Doom is thinking-man’s heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself and explore the inner environment. — Mike Scheidt

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Mortimer J. Adler

If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself. — Mortimer J. Adler

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Rob Corddry

It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you’re like «Oh, producing is a thing.» — Rob Corddry

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Mary Lambert

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create — as a tortured artist. I’ve learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work. — Mary Lambert

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Lena Dunham

You are mad to be spending the summer in the country, where the days are too quiet and you have so much time to think. In the city you live on Broadway, where the noise is so thick your scary thoughts can’t get a word in edgewise. But here in the county, there is only space. On the stone bridge by the stream. On the mossy rock at the edge of the yard. Behind the abandoned trailer where Art, the old man with the glass eye, used to live. Space, space, space, and you can scare yourself into thinking your thoughts are more like voices. — Lena Dunham

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Nathan Fillion

Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you’re only acting facets of yourself. I think there’s a lot of truth in that. — Nathan Fillion

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Carson Kressley

If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person … has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself. — Carson Kressley

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Moira Weigel

Meanwhile, the most cunning men have gotten wise to the ruses of the Rules Girl. They see that beneath her cool exterior, she is highly vulnerable. If you have been conditioned to believe that your life derives value only from male attention and affection, you will presumably go to great lengths to get it. If you are used to thinking that the only way you can pursue your desires is by making yourself into an object of desire for someone else, being ignored can quickly make you feel desperate. — Moira Weigel

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Timothy Keller

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person. — Timothy Keller

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Bob Marley

There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. — Bob Marley

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Charlotte Sophia Kasl

Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. — Charlotte Sophia Kasl

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By T. Harv Eker

Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what’s going to happen? You will lose it. Your container will overflow and the excess money will spill out all over the place. You simply cannot have more money than the container. Therefore you must grow to be a big container so you cannot only hold more wealth but also attract more wealth. The universe abhors a vacuum and if you have a very large money container, it will rush in to fill the space. — T. Harv Eker

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Isaac Asimov

[What’s exciting is] the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there’s now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it’s time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. There’s only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass through and get nothing out of it. — Isaac Asimov

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Bo Burnham

The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes. I try to be strong about it and assure myself that only my close friends and family can really pass judgement on me personally, but it’s impossible to not let it get to you. — Bo Burnham

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Wayne Dyer

I think that the only choice that we have in life is whether we align ourselves with God or not. I think everything else is all taken care of for us. You know? If you choose to align with your source, with your spirit, then your life will go in a certain direction. If you choose to align yourself with your ego, and your false self, and the belief that who you are is what you accomplish and what other people think of you and what you accumulate, if you just go that route — the outer route, if you will, the outer path — your life will go in a different direction. — Wayne Dyer

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Ajahn Chah

Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself. — Ajahn Chah

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Shaikh Ashraf

Then I told him, ‘Injustice, Poverty and Discrimination is faced by a lot of Indians, and also majority, the fact is that if you «Minority» stop thinking yourself as a part of «Minority» and start thinking as the part of India, and proceed together for it’s good, then only «Minority» and majority would progress altogether. — Shaikh Ashraf

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Jill Dawson

What did that feel like, to be a girl like Helen, unguarded, straightforward, who had allowed me to unpeel her like a mollusc from its shell, only to find that the exposure was devastating? That entrusting yourself entirely to someone can make you want to die? Helen, does it mean anything at all that I’m thinking these thoughts? That I’m able to remember and construct things differently? That for the first time I glimpsed it there from your point of view? Does it mean it’s all over for me, for the old me? — Jill Dawson

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By C.J. Heck

A runner’s high doesn’t come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at a time. It’s the same for a writer … — C.J. Heck

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Richard Ashcroft

When you’re in doubt about the future and you’re in doubt about how solid this thing is that you’re laying your life and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there’s only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn’t believe in. There’s been chipping away, people have been chipping away at it, so it’s just you in the spotlight in front of all these people. — Richard Ashcroft

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Pamela Clare

I am _not_ a woman from your village.»
His eyes narrowed. «No, you are not, for if you were, you would be grateful for the better fate Connor has won for you with his blood. Rather than thinking only of yourself, you would be beside him now, tending his hurts. — Pamela Clare

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By F.K. Preston

It was a bright day for me when I realised there wasn’t any one way to live as myself. You’re not a character. You have as many sides and reflections as the ripples that pass through a river in the spring. Don’t trick yourself into thinking you must be one person. Because you will never be only one person. Not even in the span of a day are you only one person. We are worlds stitched inside skin. There’s nothing small or simple about a world. There’s nothing small or simple about any living being. Remember this the next time someone tells you who to be and how to live. They haven’t figured it out yet. But don’t let yourself forget. — F.K. Preston

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Eckhart Tolle

Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don’t think about it — don’t let the feeling turn into thinking. Don’t judge or analyze. Don’t make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of «the one who observes,» the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens. — Eckhart Tolle

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By C.J. Heck

A writer’s high doesn’t come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at a time. — C.J. Heck

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Teresa Of Avila

You must know that weather or not you are practicing mental prayer has nothing to do with keeping your lips closed. If, while I am speaking with God, I am fully conscious of doing so, and if this is more real to me than the words I am uttering, then I am combining mental and vocal prayer. I am amazed when people tell me that you are speaking with God by reciting the Paternoster even while you are thinking of worldly things. When you speak with a Lord so great, you should think of Who it is you are addressing and what you yourself are, if only that you may speak to Him with proper respect. How can you address a king with the reverence he deserves unless you are clearly conscious of his position and yours? — Teresa Of Avila

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Ji Lee

I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself. — Ji Lee

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Lina Wertmuller

If I love something I do it, and if I don’t, I don’t. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don’t love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society. — Lina Wertmuller

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By James Redfield

Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you
a state of conscious alertness. — James Redfield

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Eleanor Clark

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself. — Eleanor Clark

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer

It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could have easily have been found already written in a book: but it is a hundred times more valuable if you have arrived at it by thinking for yourself. For only then will it enter your thought system as an integral part and living member, be perfectly and firmly consistent with it and in accord with all its other consequences and conclusions, bear the hue, colour and stamp of your whole manner of thinking, and have arrived at just the moment it was needed ; thus it will stay firmly and forever lodged in your mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By John Wooden

Promise yourself you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best in yourself and others. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future. — John Wooden

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Dennis J. Bennett

If you are still thinking of yourself as two parts — soul and body, then you will inevitably confuse your psychological reactions with your spiritual life, and this is not only confusing to the understanding, but it can actually, in this very psychological age, lead you into real false teaching. — Dennis J. Bennett

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Hina Hashmi

Limiting beliefs and thoughts are created in the mind. These mental blocks must be cleared to be happy. Only then the loving wisdom of the soul will open. — Hina Hashmi

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Jennifer Beals

In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don’t know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don’t know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else. — Jennifer Beals

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Vicki Tidwell Palmer

It may be hard to hear, but victim thinking is actually self-centered. If you’re stuck in a victim mindset, you feel one down, helpless, and at the mercy of others. From this place you perceive yourself as the target of unfortunate events and other people. You may interpret random events as being about your exceptionally bad luck or as a sign that other people are out to get you. You become «terminally unique» in your outlook and you may even become paranoid. When you take on the role of victim as an identity or a badge of honor, you are actively participating in your victimization and disowning your authentic personal power. «You are only a victim for a nanosecond.» — Pia Mellody — Vicki Tidwell Palmer

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Vishwas Mudagal

I have fallen in love with writing, unknowingly. Instead of thinking whether people will like what I write or not, I decide to write only for one person- myself! I told myself that ‘I as an author is going to entertain I as an audience.’ And everything changed that day!

When you find your passion, don’t succumb to the pressure of succeeding.Follow your passion just for yourself and for the sheer joy of it. You will see amazing things will follow- that’s a guarantee. — Vishwas Mudagal

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Chris Hadfield

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you’re setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time. — Chris Hadfield

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Dan Marino

The scoreboard can’t make you a loser. If you walk off the field with your head up, you don’t lose. You don’t hang your head for nobody. People in the stands think you’re the greatest or the worst — their opinion doesn’t make a difference. The only opinion that makes any difference is your own opinion of yourself. — Dan Marino

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Boy George

When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself. — Boy George

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Oliver Markus

When you push someone’s head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn’t matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. It’s just a natural process. If their head is under water, the lack of oxygen will make them drown. That rule applies to everyone, good or bad, equally. It doesn’t matter if the drowning person has strong moral fiber.
And it doesn’t matter if you’re a good or a bad person, once you become addicted to drugs. What happens next is inevitable. It’s a natural process that happens in everyone’s brain, once the drugs take over. So don’t ever fool yourself into thinking that only weak or bad people get addicted. — Oliver Markus

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By John Banville

When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos. — John Banville

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Martine Leavitt

I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him as good cloth, rich fabric that wants only to be embroidered upon. And perhaps, if you will do that, you will see that you love Tailor yourself. — Martine Leavitt

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Bob Dylan

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn’t either of them. And I just figured they’re irrelevant. — Bob Dylan

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Deepak Chopra

Seeing the possibilities: It would be much easier to let go of outcomes if every choice turned out well. And why shouldn’t it? In the one reality there are no wrong turns, only new turns. But the ego personality likes things to be connected. Coming in second today is better than coming in third yesterday, and tomorrow I want to come in first. This kind of linear thinking reflects a crude conception of progress. Real growth happens in many dimensions. What happens to you can affect how you think, feel, relate to others, behave in a given situation, fit into your surroundings, perceive the future, or perceive yourself. All these dimensions must evolve in order for you to evolve. Try to see the possibilities in whatever happens. — Deepak Chopra

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Bill Burr

I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I’ve definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you’re like, «Jesus, I’m bombing.» The fact that people pay to come see me, that’s really just out the window. — Bill Burr

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Sherrilyn Kenyon

Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Charles M. Schulz

I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of a strip. It’s the only way that you can survive when you have to do something every day. You have to put yourself, all of your thoughts, all of your observations and everything you know into the strip. — Charles M. Schulz

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Frederick Lenz

In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others. — Frederick Lenz

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Dennis Miller

Teresa Lewis, the only woman on death row in Virginia, says she doesn’t deserve the death penalty because she only hired the killers of her husband and stepson, she didn’t actually pull the trigger herself. You know, she has a point. I think we should let her be able to hire the person who executes her, and not do yourself in! How’s that, doll? Yeah! Get it over with quick, maybe Charlize Theron will sign up to play you. — Dennis Miller

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Mitsuo Aida

Because it has lived its life intensely
the parched grass still attracts the gaze of passers-by.
The flowers merely flower,
and they do this as well as they can.
The white lily, blooming unseen in the valley,
Does not need to explain itself to anyone;
It lives merely for beauty.
Man, however, cannot accept that ‘merely’.

If tomatoes wanted to be melons,
they would look completely ridiculous.
I am always amazed
that so many people are concerned
with wanting to be what they are not;
what’s the point of making yourself look ridicuolous?

You don’t always have to pretend to be strong,
there’s no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,
you shouldn’t be concerned about what other people are thinking,
cry if you need to,
it’s good to cry out all your tears
(because only then will you be able to smile again). — Mitsuo Aida

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Richard Dawkins

Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it is possible to go from a single cell to a complicated human body, with its trillions of cells organized into bones and muscles and nerves, a heart that pumps without ceasing for decades, miles and miles of blood vessels and kidney tubules, and a brain capable of thinking and talking and feeling. JBS: But madam, you did it yourself. And it only took you nine months. — Richard Dawkins

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Mehmet Murat Ildan

You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Lydia Lunch

No easy way out. No escape. From yourself. You had to LEARN to DEAL with the cards you were dealt. Had to learn the hard way that the world doesn’t OWE you a fucking thing. Not a reason, nor excuse. No apologies. Had to learn that some forms of insanity run in the family, pure genetics, polluted lifelines, full of disease. Profanity. Addiction. Co-addiction. Inability to deal with reality, what the fuck ever that’s suppose to mean when you’re born into an emotional ghetto of endless abuse. Where the only way out is in…deep, deep inside, so you poke holes in your skin, thinking that if you could just concentrate the pain it wouldn’t remain an all-consuming surround which suffocates you from the first breath of day to your last dying day. Day in. Day out. Day in. Day out. I knew all about it. — Lydia Lunch

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Dossie Easton

Practice self-nurturing, not only to get you through hard times but to guide you into a loving relationship with yourself. When you follow through with a simple act like comforting yourself with homemade soup, bringing home a fragrant flower for your night table, or taking a sweet solitary walk in a beautiful place, then you get an experience of being kind to yourself that can answer all those questions about «what do they mean, love myself?» This question is more easily answered by doing than by thinking. — Dossie Easton

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Thaddeus Golas

Expansion in love is an action that is available to every being in the universe all the time. A willing awareness will take
us to heaven, a loving attitude will make us free. Nothing else controls our fate. Good or bad behavior is secondary.
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are thinking, love yourself for thinking it. Love is the
only dimension that needs to be changed. If you are not sure how it feels to be loving, love yourself for not being sure of
how it feels. There is nothing on earth more important than the love which conscious beings feel towards each other,
whether or not it is ever expressed. — Thaddeus Golas

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Og Mandino

First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do. — Og Mandino

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By James Rozoff

You’ve got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You’re only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others. — James Rozoff

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Each of us have a winner within. Tap into your potential and gain unlimited success! The only one who can stop you is yourself. Think Positive! Be Optimistic! Don’t be fooled into thinking it can’t be done. Look around amazing things are accomplished everyday. New inventions, discoveries are happening all the time. If you can get one foot in the door, you can make it happen. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Wes Montgomery

It’s impossible for me to feel like there’s only one way to do a thing. There’s nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it’s a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there’s a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear ’em in a different register. And if you don’t have complete freedom, or you won’t let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that’s too horrible to even think about. — Wes Montgomery

Thinking Only Of Yourself Quotes By Michael J. Sullivan

I tried to find a way to go on. I could see familiar traces of the path that was my life, but there was always the wall behind me. Do you know what I mean? First you try and climb, pretending it never happened, but it’s too tall. Then you try to go around, thinking you can fix it, but it is too far. Then, in frustration, you beat on it with your hands, but it does nothing, so you tire and sit down and just stare at it. You stare because you can’t bring yourself to walk away. Walking away means that you’re giving up, abandoning them.
«There is no way back. There is only forward. It’s impossible to imagine there’s any reason to move ahead, but that isn’t the real reason you give up. The real fear
the terror that keeps you rooted
is that you might be wrong.»
Myron, Monk of Maribor — Michael J. Sullivan

think only of yourself — перевод на русский

think only of yourselfдумаешь только о себе

You think only of yourself.

Ты думаешь только о себе.

Even when you’re looking at me, you think only of yourself.

Даже когда ты смотришь на меня, ты думаешь только о себе.

Do you always think only of yourself?

Ты всегда думаешь только о себе?

You think only of yourself.

Думаешь только о себе.

You think only of themselves.

Думаешь только о себе.

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Solo travel allows you to be selfish and to think only of yourself — if only for a little while.



Поездка позволяет вам быть эгоистичным и думать только о себе — хотя бы на некоторое время.


People do not understand that you can not think only of yourself.


If you think only of yourself, ultimately you will lose.


Even now you think only of yourself.


You always think only of yourself.


Even when you’re looking at me, you think only of yourself.


What happens if you think only of yourself?


If you think only of yourself, you’ll be anxious, suspicious and full of fear.


You cannot think only of yourself.


In such an emergency, you can no longer think only of yourself.


Honey, I knew you’d be upset, and that you’d think only of yourself.


«You think only of yourself


For this reason, try to put limits on people, give priority to those who truly deserve your efforts, and sometimes try to think only of yourself.



Поэтому всегда старайтесь накладывать ограничения на людей, отдавать приоритет тем, кто действительно их заслуживает, и время от времени думать только о себе.


Given how dependent we are on each other it’s unrealistic to think only of yourself, so the wise way to fulfil self-interest is to look after the interests of others.



Принимая во внимание, насколько мы все взаимозависимы, весьма недальновидно думать только о себе, поэтому мудрые эгоисты обеспечивают собственную выгоду, заботясь об интересах других.


Phrases like: ‘You always think only of yourself‘, ‘You’ll never hold back their promises! and similar convince the child (and adult too) in inability to behave differently.



Такие фразы, как: «Ты всегда думаешь только о себе!», «Ты никогда не сдерживаешь своих обещаний!» и тому подобные убеждают ребенка (да и взрослого тоже) в неумении вести себя по-другому.


you are not thinking of the child; you think only of yourself.


That is to say, you think only of yourself, not of others, nor of the world, nor of the work, nor of what ought to be done — you think only of your devotion.



То есть, вы думаете только о себе, ни о других, ни о мире, ни о работе, ни о том, что должно быть сделано — вы думаете только о своей преданности.


But you can strive for pleasure in different ways — you can do it, respecting the interests and needs of other people, especially close, dear, beloved people, or you can be a terrible egoist and think only of yourself.



Но к удовольствию можно стремиться по-разному — можно делать это, уважая интересы и потребности других людей, особенно близких, дорогих, любимых людей, а можно быть жутким эгоистом и думать только о себе.


Think only of yourself and your little girl.


Think only of yourself for once.

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