Quotes About Ego

A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.

I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

I don't take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there's some sickness with people like that.

There's two sides to Trump's character, at least his pre-presidential character. One was, 'I'm the richest man you could possibly imagine, I live the life of Scrooge McDuck.' The other side was, 'I need your money. Give me money.'

I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?

I've signed a few autographs.

I feel like a star while signing autographs.

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

When people take themselves really seriously, I find it silly and amusing.

I thought I was a god. I was more important than you, because I could do this thing where I played a silly sport that made me a better human being, in my eyes.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

Our job, as souls on this mortal journey, is to shift the seat of our identity from the lower realm to the upper, from the ego to the Self. Art

The clash is epic and internal, between the ego and the Self, and the stakes are our lives.

Give the act to me. Purged of hope and ego, Fix your attention on the soul. Act and do for me.

Here's what I think. I think angels make their home in the Self, while Resistance has its seat in the Ego. The fight is between the two. The Self wishes to create, to evolve. The Ego likes things just the way they are.

Next to Resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneur's worst enemy. Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because rational thought comes from the ego. Instead, we want to work from the Self, that is, from instinct and intuition, from the unconscious.

All three of these paths embody one unifying principle," Vance said. We were now approaching the eighteenth green. "That of surrender. Surrender of the Little Mind to the Big Mind, surrender of the personal ego to the greater wisdom of the Self.

The Ego produces Resistance and attacks the awakening artist.

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Most men complimented my sexual vigor, thinking I owed it to them. All of them credited themselves afterwards, but the dour clown just lay there. For a moment, I thought I loved him.

When we adopt this particular ego mask, we invest ourselves in the notion that those who shine the brightest are loved the most. This comes from the distorted idea that meaning and acceptance come from what we do, not who we are. We buy into the widespread notion that "light" emanates from our achievements, not from the divine fire within our soul.