Quotes About Ego

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

Las gentes con el alma pequeña siempre tratan de empequeñecer a los demás

Tell me what you boast of and I´ll tell you what you lack!

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible? Corelli asked. 'Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)

I know you men believe that the size of your stubbornness should match the size of your privates." "Did you also read that in your book?" "No, that wisdom's homemade.

Não precisa de o admitir,se isso põe em risco o seu sentido de masculinidade.Sei muito bem que os homens acham que o tamanho da sua teimosia corresponde ao tamanho das suas partes pudendas.

En contra de lo que usted cree a pies juntillas, el universo no gira en torno a las apetencias de su entrepierna. Otros factores influyen en el devenir de la humanidad.

tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack.

Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.

Forgiveness is essential to healing, because it requires you to surrender your ego's need to have life fall into place around your personal version of justice.

Your highest purpose is what your soul can accomplish in union with your ego and God, not in opposition to them.

It's not his job to mind her, or is it? Perhaps that's a job he's given himself, placing himself in a position of importance for his own ego.

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.

Not only did Felix have a very high opinion of himself, but he was a man. Maybe the two were synonymous.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.

When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

Men and women are not the same in the kitchen. Women tend to be uninhibited and instinctive. Men are inconsistent, egotistical show-offs.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

The big message of gospel is that you don't have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.