Ego Quotes

• What's cool about Matador is that everyone I've met there is just so chill and really into what they're doing. Everyone that works there, there's just such a lack of ego, and there's such a commitment to what they're doing. They all like each other.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Cool
  • Commitment
  • Chill

• Emotional Amoral Egoism indicates that ethnic conflict should be understood in terms of a reaction to a failure to satisfy a group’s basic physiological, security and ego needs due to discrimination, experienced by a group whose relations are premised, above all, on cultural affinities.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Failure
  • Emotional
  • Ego

• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

  

  Garth Stein
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Speak

• The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Knowledge
  • Ego
  • Equation

• In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Ego
  • Personal

• I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Dark

• Everybody needs to lower his ego.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Ego

• I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Time
  • Same
  • Ego

• I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Mind
  • Object
  • PR

• Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

  

  David D. Burns
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Learning

• As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Fire
  • Ego

• You need a big ego to be an artist.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Ego

• A lot of times you have very ego-driven actors and actresses that stay in their little world, and when you have a scene together, your worlds meet for a moment. But I don't think that makes for a very good cohesion.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • World
  • Good
  • Together

• I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • Up
  • Good
  • May

• I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

  

  Eric Hill
  • Wonder
  • Author
  • Ego

• I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.

  

  Carol Alt
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Changes
  • Ego
  • Self

• Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Understanding
  • Compassion

• I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Money
  • Power
  • Political

• The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Ego
  • Bodies
  • Permanent

• No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Free
  • Actions
  • Lust

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