If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
Consequences of acting in Donald Trump's usual egocentric, "I make the rules," way can be quite dangerous for all of us.
Toddlers are so powerful and so egocentric and teenagers are also so powerful, so egocentric.
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.
Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are.
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.
Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?
Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.
Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.
Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.
What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.
It was fun yet challenging to play the dual roles. I'm a really nice guy, and the character [of Dubious] is egocentric and hard-edged, so I had to pull out the negative aspects of me to attribute to the role.
It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.
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.
Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.
I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.
Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.
