Quotes About Ego

Even the few whom we genuinely adore we have to belittle secretly now and then, as Toby and I had to belittle James, just to feed the healthy appetite of our wondrously necessary egos.

He had ceased to be interested in anyone but himself.

The young are self-satisfied really and utterly ruthless.

Bruce, you're an ugly and silly old man. You're very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You're the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You're a mess. You've gone wrong somewhere pal.

N it's fuckin well beyond violence, it's beyond even sexual; it's a kind ay love, a fuckin bizarre, vain-glorious self-adoration, way past the fuckin ego even. Ah'm findin somethin...ah'm...but it's what bein a hard man is aboot; it's a journey, a fuckin self-destructive quest tae find yir limits, cause they fuckin limits eywis come in the form ay a harder man. A big, stong, stiff-hard man whae can dae it for ye, whae can teach ye, show ye whaire ye stand, where yir fuckin parameters ur.

In the gairdin ay eunuchs, even the gadgie wi the two-inch cock cannae help but swagger.) We're

Money makes the man a beast.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

He didn't believe that, surely." "Of course not! But he had to pretend he did, as otherwise he would have had no choice but to be insulted. And since there would be nothing he could do about that, being insulted would only lead to humiliation. And since he didn't want that, the simplest path to follow was to believe what I said.

He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.

wretchedness of some and the arrogance of

Qué sacas con pensar en el futuro, las cosas siguen su curso y tú no tienes control de nada, relájate, hermano», era el consejo cien veces repetido de su amigo. Lo acusaba de vivir en perpetua conversación consigo mismo, mascullando, recordando, arrepintiéndose, planeando. Decía que sólo los humanos andaban centrados en sí mismos, esclavos de su ego, observándose, a la defensiva aunque ningún peligro los amenazara.

male vanity goes deeper and is costlier.

sacas con pensar en el futuro, las cosas siguen su curso y tú no tienes control de nada, relájate, hermano», era el consejo cien veces repetido de su amigo. Lo acusaba de vivir en perpetua conversación consigo mismo, mascullando, recordando, arrepintiéndose, planeando. Decía que sólo los humanos andaban centrados en sí mismos, esclavos de su ego, observándose

Manda tu superego al carajo, hombre. Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.

My name has zero value.

The songwriting community in Nashville really is all about your talent. It's not about your image, and you have to be humble. You have to be kind. You have to have zero ego when you walk into that writing room.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.