Wilson Mizner Quotes

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

Wilson Mizner

• Ego
• Humble

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• When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Stage
  • Ego

• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Ego

• Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Always
  • Car
  • Humble

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Community

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Family
  • May
  • Humble

• I am no more humble than my talents require.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Humble
  • Talents

• You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • True
  • Success

• I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Star
  • Forget
  • Ego

• In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opinion

• You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Know
  • Humble
  • Be Humble

• There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Job
  • House
  • Humble

• In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Best
  • Criticism

• But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Believe
  • Opinion
  • Humble

• The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Question
  • Understanding
  • Humble

• I can only stick my neck out and offer my humble beliefs. If I become an outsider by doing so, this won't be a great hardship as I've been that as far back as I can remember - something strange and unacceptable in the eyes of those who believe they see straight. At least it's given me courage of a kind, which I'd like every Australian to acquire.

  

  Patrick White
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Remember

• Celebrity worship syndrome … is indicative of a kind of a complete dissolution of the self in favor of another. … Whether it's a mob mentality or a desire to be controlled by something higher than you, these cases are indicative of how charisma can replace the ego.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Desire
  • Celebrity
  • Ego

• Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Music
  • Family
  • History

• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Long
  • Two
  • Half

• Go around - listen to how many times a day you say, 'I love' instead of, 'I hate.' Isn't it interesting that children, as they learn the process of language, always learn the word 'no' years before they learn the word 'yes'? Ask linguists where they hear it. Maybe if they heard more of 'I love, I love, I love' they'd hear it sooner and more often.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Children
  • Interesting
  • Hate

• Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Risk

• Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Ego
  • Humble