Self-Importance Quotes

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. Carl Sagan
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. J. Donald Walters
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz
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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. Moby
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Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician. Christopher Guest
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People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance. Greil Marcus
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Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall. Julia Sawalha
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Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world. Michael Pollan
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