Ego Quotes
-
I'm an actor; I have an ego that is sometimes disproportionate to the reality of the situation.
-
… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
-
I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
-
I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
-
Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.
-
When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.
-
I knew if I had to struggle, I couldn't struggle in New York. My ego was too big for it. I couldn't be a guy who is starving when I had a very successful business when I was young.
-
This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.
-
I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....
-
When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
-
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
-
To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.
-
You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.
-
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.
-
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
-
Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.
-
They say what I did was ego-driven and name-dropping …Damn right it is. Who am I going to write about? People I didn't meet?
-
Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.
-
In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
-
My ego is one thing. Of course I want people to like what I do. Of course. There's no doubt. You wouldn't do it. But I think what people don't fully know is how responsible you feel for so many entities. So many hardworking people who've collaborated.
-
This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.
-
A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.
-
A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'
-
A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.
