Quotes About Ego

The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego's hat off and leaving it at the door, then they can dive deep within themselves and we can pull out something interesting that people have never heard before. It's the stuff that's - that no one's ever heard before is really interesting.

If you think you're higher than UFC, if you think you're better than all the other fighters, then maybe you should get pulled.

Pursuing fame is the ultimate in people-pleasing and the ultimate betrayal of self.

Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.

Anybody who puts himself on a ballot has to have a big ego, we have to have it.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've got something completely wrong, and it's good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

I am always flattered to hear my name linked with different football clubs. That is good for your ego, but at the same time, I am happy here.

I'm flattered anybody would call me a legend.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

We are all a lot more attracted to someone who finds us incredibly attractive. It's very flattering. It feels good.

Giving autographs is flattering.

I think people ragging on me is kind of a form of flattery.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

A little flattery goes a long way.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

I always say to my people, 'If you don't sell a Ferrari to a football player, you make a big present to me.' Really. Because they buy to just show off. I don't like.

As a football player, you must have a big ego to respect yourself. So if you are a good player, you must say that you are good. You need to have the confidence.

I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.

Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside your head.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.