Quotes About Ego

I don't trust too much in personal trophies.

I don't really like those houses where someone's put up all their old football trophies and whatever; you know, what are they trying to prove?

I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

Our true passions are selfish.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

Of course, Oliver Stone is not Donald Trump. But he shares with him a certain way of seeing the world and being in the world - and the luxury of persisting in this way of being, and even making a spectacle of it.

A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.

Trump prides himself on being an intimidator.

Hillary Clinton is about 'we.' Donald Trump is about 'me.'

For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.

Planned Parenthood is being mentioned by the Republican Party more than ISIS. I think Trump is insane. I don't think you could have a normal conversation or even convince him. I think the ego is just about Trump. It's not about the issues at all.

Sometimes I feel like you can toot your own trumpet too much. I don't really like that.

When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie.

When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.