Quotes About Ego

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around him are smaller.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

I never played a woman who was smarter than me.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.

Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.

There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

There are no consequences for Snowden breaking the law in Snowden's World. It's where his massively inflated ego dictates the rules and determines which he will follow.

I see people every day who think they're the be all and end all of the industry. I've seen so many people come and go, but the industry doesn't revolve around one person.

Believe me, I have met so many people who absolutely have no reason to feel important, and they do!

With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your own importance. It's worth keeping that in check.

Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing them all, our kith and kin.

Part of the power of the ego flows from its command of one's rational faculties.)

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

One may be humble out of pride.

La presunción es nuestra enfermedad natural y primera. La más frágil y discutible de las criaturas es el hombre, y a la vez la más orgullosa

could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition.

We don't see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.

When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.

What causes you to be trapped is what we call personal importance. Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me.

We try so hard to be important, to be a winner, to be powerful, to be rich, to be famous, to express our personal dream, and to impose our dream onto other people around us.