Quotes About Ego

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

You must not believe your own PR; it would be grotesque.

It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

I hate it when anyone in the gym can deadlift more than me.

He had delusions of adequacy.

I am in my own hall of fame, that's all that matters.

Du skal ikke tror at du er noget. "Don't think you're somebody.

The child with an embellished sense of self will see himself as superior to others—as God's gift to the world and deserving of whatever he wants. Studies show this inflated sense of self-esteem is rampant among the young today.

By nature, we are egocentric. Our

The ego is a master illusionist, and one of the ways it diverts your attention, from the moment you're born, is by giving you — and this calls for another drum roll, please — problems.

As far as the ego's plan is concerned, your seemingly multiple problems show up in this world in an attempt to get you to react — to feel bad, guilty, mad, defeated, bored, scared, inferior, self-conscious, annoyed, lonely, or superior and condescending. It's all some kind of a judgment, regardless of the form. As soon as you make that judgment, you give validity to the ego's world and reinforce the seeming reality of the separation and everything that goes with it.

As was often the case with the ego's script, the plot added up to "damned if you do and damned if you don't.

The Actor to Dee: You fall in love with yourself first. With who you want to be when interacting with the person you think you're in love with. Then maybe, if you loosen up a little, you fall in love with what the other person really is, but primarily you still love them because of how they enhance you. Now you just have all these backup reasons to love them.

It's easy to want to change, but it's hard to actually change. Very, really hard. You have to be willing to be uncomfortable, enter the unknown, do things your ego doesn't want to do. You have to value being true to what you glimpse as possible—to the heart of your heart

For every mortal man's power is but like a bladder full of wind, for certain. When it is blown up, the simple prick of a needle point can deflate the pompous pride of it.

Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does.

All feeling of shame rests upon isolation of the individual; it arises whenever stress is laid upon the ego , whenever the attention of a circle is drawn to such an individual — in reality or only in his imagination —which at the same time is felt to be in some way incongruous. For that reason retiring and weak natures particularly incline to feelings of shame.

Each consciousness seeks the death of the other.

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar the first lion thinks the last a bore.