Peter Dinklage

It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.

American Actor

Jeffrey Kluger

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

American Writer

Gail Bradbrook

This is not a slow movement of change. It's a shift in the consciousness of each of us. It is a collective shift. It involves facing grief and trauma and undoing our numbness and our narcissism and our indulgence that we have in this privileged western society.

British Activist

Jason Reitman

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

Canadian Director

Meryl Streep

Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.

American Actress

Jenny McCarthy

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

American Model

Leandra Medine

I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention is that it will positively affect other people.

American Author

Moby

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

American Musician

Sigmund Freud

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Austrian Psychologist

Tucker Max

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

Some cultures may view healthy self-esteem as narcissism; understand the distinction.

Cultural Perception

Narcissism usually has a negative connotation, suggesting selfishness and egotism.

Negative Connotation

Avoid using 'narcissism' casually, as it can offend people if misused.

Context Sensitivity

Narcissism in psychology refers specifically to a disorder, not just any self-centered behavior.

Specific Disorder

Understand that a person with narcissism may genuinely struggle to recognize others' feelings.

Empathy Deficit

Note the deep craving for admiration when discussing narcissism as a personality disorder.

Admiration Need

 work so brilliant there it is right there that distance that I'm talking about that psychological construct to protect you from the results of your work you know and everyone knew that this is how it functioned right so the ancient artist was protected from certain things like for example too much narcissism right if your work was

Your elusive creative...

 So brilliant -- there it is, right there, that distance that I'm talking about -- that psychological construct to protect you from the results of your work. And everyone knew that this is how it functioned, right? So the ancient artist was protected from certain things, like, for example, too much narcissism, right?

 leaders are significantly more effective their employees are more productive and more innovative but there's a third kind of leader that gets even better results and that would be called a humble narcissist how can you be humble and narcissistic they sound like opposites but they're not because narcissism is

The best teams have this...

 You know, a lot of people have described climbers and climbing itself as being one of the most celebrated compulsive obsessive disorders that's out there. You know, I think throw in a little bit of narcissism and then the bad hygiene, you kinda get a pretty good idea of what most climbers are like.

Risk Takers: Challenging...

 elevated and sometimes detrimental self-involvement. But it's not just a personality type that shows up in advice columns. It's actually a set of traits classified and studied by psychologists. The psychological definition of narcissism is an inflated, grandiose self-image.

The psychology of...

 so that was a bad idea. Anyway, I was really delighted to receive the invitation to present to you some of my music and some of my work as a composer, presumably because it appeals to my well-known and abundant narcissism. And I'm not kidding, I just think we should just

The mad scientist of...

 while those of narcissism are on the rise. There is also a growing culture of disengagement between engineering students and the public. We are trained to build bridges and solve complex problems but not how to think or live or be a citizen of this world.

Science in service to...

 You were also reading in the newspaper earlier this week that a study of these children who were born as designer babies indicates they may have some issues, like increased aggressiveness and narcissism. But more immediately on your mind

The ethical dilemma of...

 And secondly, I'm a recovering narcissist. I didn't know I was a narcissist actually. I thought narcissism meant you loved yourself. And then someone told me there is a flip side to it.

A theory of everything PIPE...

 "Excuse me — I think there's something wrong with this in a tiny way that no one other than me would ever be able to pinpoint." So it focuses on our obsessions, our narcissism,