Observing laughter and other audience reactions which are not in keeping with what is happening at the precise moment during my lecture is my cue that I have an egocentric person on stage.
"A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis"
Melvin Powers
Even in those days he displayed, side by side, on the one hand, his democratic bias which led him violently to oppose the aristocratic student-clubs, and on the other, his egocentric and autocratic leanings which made him inaccessible to any advice from outside, and constantly embroiled him with the governing council of the University.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
Mr. Wilson's personal sensitiveness and egocentric nature played an essential part in all the negotiations.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff