Quotes About Ego

Oh, I'm not perfect – not by a long stretch. I just make the rest of you look bad.

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

The personality cult of the ego does not work down a coal mine and it does not work in the Labour party.

I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.

The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

I am lighter than Paul Pierce.

I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.

Donald Trump is a lost soul wandering this Earth. He's been led down the Willy Loman path and believes his own hype. He's serving his little self and his little ego; otherwise, why would he need to overcompensate so much?

When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

Taller people get very competitive. When I meet someone who's close to me or taller, I'm straight up; I don't wanna be smaller than them.

I don't know why people be in the club trying to be so cool. Standing around, trying to be cool. I don't get that. I just think everybody wanna be a star. That's why people don't dance.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.