Quotes About Ego

happiness comes from taking all the credit and none of the

People who like authoritarianism always picture themselves running the show. But no one stays on top for long.

I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.

Full of promise, full of dreams, full of shit. Mostly just full of yourself. So full you're bursting. And then you get out into the world, and people empty you out, little by little, like air from a balloon.

top up position down The fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am in fact negating that very realization, am I not? Descartes's Asshole Axiom: I think I am; therefor I'm not one.

Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15

Love made us partners in narcissism

Question is are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

It does sound too easy, doesn't it? But if a man keeps saying, "I want you," a naive girl is drawn in by the ego-trip of her own desirability. The man need not be particularly attractive in himself. It's the girl's vulnerability which traps her. A student from a co-ed school would laugh it off unless she was truly attracted

They welcomed him as a hero, but he now knew that heroes were soon created by those needing reflected glory.

he's the kind of guy who lets on in the provinces that he's very well known in Moscow, and in Moscow that he's very well known in the provinces.

El hombre que se cree superior, inferior o incluso igual a otro hombre no conoce la realidad.»

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

La evolución humana consiste en la disminución del ego, para que crezcan el amor y la sabiduría.

la soberbia es puro ego concentrado, apaga la luz interior... ?

Todo el mundo aconseja, no por bondad y desprendimiento, sino porque el consejo lleva implícita la inferioridad del aconsejado.

Y en seguida, estornudé. -¿Tienes frío? -¡No! Estornudo por darme importancia.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Only an idiot believes he can write the truth about himself.

The position is, then, that at any given moment each individual in a social aggregation will exhibit a Parental, Adult or Child ego state, and that individuals can shift with varying degrees of readiness from one ego state to another.

In technical language, an ego state may be described phenomenologically as a coherent system of feelings, and operationally as a set of coherent behavior patterns. In more practical terms, it is a system of feelings accompanied by a related set of behavior patterns. Each individual seems to have available a limited repertoire of such ego states, which are not roles but psychological realities.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

This was the problem of being a narcissist: No one appreciated you as much as you knew you deserved." Louis Piper, Prince of Darkness, Lucifer, The Morning Star.