Quotes About Ego

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.

The way we like to think of ourselves is not the way we look. We like to think of ourselves as more evolved than we frequently are.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

I think people are addicted to looking good in front of other people.

I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.

I guess it is vanity that makes most of us keep straight, if we do keep straight, in this world.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

The result, in this world view, is that real freedom comes not from the decisions of an ego-self's "will" but from action without any Self whatsoever

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

Soltanto i progressisti pensano davvero. Soltanto i progressisti sono intellettuali. Soltanto i progressisti capiscono i bisogni dei loro simili. Quanta cattiveria si annidava in quella parola!, pensò Odrade. Quanto ego segreto che esigeva di sentirsi superiore.

1. An honest ego in a healthy body 2. An eye to see nature 3. A heart to feel nature 4. Courage to follow nature 5. A sense of proportion (humor) 6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work 7. Fertility of imagination 8. Capacity for faith and rebellion 9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance 10. Instinctive cooperation

Caution: If you're a person who will one day mentor others, I have a sobering warning. If your ego hasn't been annihilated by the cross of Jesus Christ, you will end up becoming a Saul in the lives of those who are just as (or more) gifted than you are. And when God begins to elevate them in His service, you will go insane.

A MAN'S ALTER EGO is nothing more than his favorite image of himself.

A man's alter ego is nothing more than his favorite image of himself.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

If you ask two people to remember a specific event, the stories are going to vary wildly because we always make ourselves out to be the hero.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I've never really minded being Mrs. Robbie Williams because my ego is relatively small, but it is really nice now that people know there is something else there besides that.

I don't think you can be as successful as an artist like Robbie Williams unless you're thinkin' about yourself 24 hours a day.