Quotes About Egotistical

You've got a big ego, Fuentes." "That's not all I've got.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

Resistance also told me I shouldn't seek to instruct, or put myself forward as a purveyor of wisdom; that this was vain, egotistical, possibly even corrupt, and that it would work harm to me in the end. That scared me. It made a lot of sense.

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

The idiot is bound by his pride," he says. "It always has to be his way.

The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical.

The usual antonym for the word "spiritual" is "material." That at least is what I believed when I began this inquiry—that the whole issue with spirituality turned on a question of metaphysics. Now I'm inclined to think a much better and certainly more useful antonym for "spiritual" might be "egotistical.

a much better and certainly more useful antonym for "spiritual" might be "egotistical." Self and Spirit define the opposite ends of a spectrum, but that spectrum needn't reach clear to the heavens to have meaning for us. It can stay right here on earth.

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

his writing had stalled (the market perhaps saturated at last with egotistical male writers);

I'm the f*cking end-all, be-all of music.

While I was young, getting money, a hustler, I was sharp. But I never thought I was too smart to learn something new. Keep your receptors open, and don't get too egotistical to think you know more than everybody else in the room.

the human animal is a selfish beast...

And after I act as your intermediary and he takes you back to Faery, then what?" "Then all will be made right, and I'll be invincible again." She rolled her eyes. "I meant, what happens to me? While you may be the most important thing to your egotistical little self in your narcissistic little world, guess what— so am I in mine.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things; look here, three peaks as proud as Lucifer. The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano, that is Ahab; the courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all are Ahab; and this round gold is but the image of the rounder globe, which, like a magician's glass, to each and every man in turn but mirrors back his own mysterious self.

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same

Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative.

You're arrogant, domineering, egotistical, and disdainful of the law." He lifted one amused brow. "And your point would be?

I'm a large, bombastic type of windbag.

That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!

megalomaniacal.

Tucker "I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am. Please speak up.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.