And, of course, people are only interested in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule- a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting- only the deeply personal and familiar.

If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule — a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.

If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting — only the deeply personal and familiar.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

The only person who needs to be concerned about the story of you is you.

A person hears only what they understand.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about “I.

A person`s listening ability is limited by his ability to listen to himself.

Nobody is thinking about you the way you are thinking about you. They’re all thinking about themselves.

those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

In the end one experiences only oneself.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.