Ego Quotes

• I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!

  

  Jennifer Fallon
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Reading

• Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Reality
  • Water
  • Ego

• The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

  

  James Altucher
  • Advice
  • Ego

• 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.

  

  Matthew Barney
  • Up
  • Work
  • Ego

• I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

  

  Amber Valletta
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Spiritual

• When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Money
  • War
  • Reality

• I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Looks
  • Ego

• I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Job
  • Rock
  • Professional

• Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Ego

• The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Spiritual

• The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Death
  • Enlightenment
  • Attainment

• You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Ego
  • Wrestling

• 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?

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • People
  • Ego

• 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.

  

  Carlos Condit
  • Sport
  • Regular
  • Checked

• Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Ego

• I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Pretty
  • Ego

• I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Work
  • Job
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Long
  • Family
  • May

• 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.

  

  Jeremy Luke
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Struggle

• A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

  

  John Mayer
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Ego

• I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt...a few girls have passed out, that's all.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Nice
  • Hurt
  • Ego

• There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Attention
  • Stupid
  • Drinking

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