Quotes About Ego

And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.

Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near perfect fit.

Nothing demonstrates a celebrity's basic drive for attention more powerfully than a willingness to check one's dignity at the door, week after week, in front of millions of viewers.

Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.

Dez Bryant isn't Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Drew Brees or Russell Wilson. Dez Bryant is a typical, me-first NFL receiver diva, cut from the same cloth as Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, Randy Moss and Keyshawn Johnson, sprinkled with a heavy dash of Pacman Jones.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

I have this dreadful image of me driving down Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, with the windows rolled down, and our song comes on... and I'm sitting there listening to it and some guy pulls up next to me and thinks, 'Hey, it's that guy from the Goo Goo Dolls... he's listening to his own music. What a jerk!'

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I'm a bad loser, but I'm not a good winner either - I like to rub it in people's faces!

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

I'm grand once I keep winning trophies. That's all that counts.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).

I'm the best and I'll thank you to remember that.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

I really want to pop the crowd. I want to show off. That is the one thing that I've always loved about my career is I just want to show off. I always hated the storylines.

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.

You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.