Quotes About Ego

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

As a typical creative, I am all ego and insecurity!

If you're not perfectly conscious of yourself, that self can be tyrannical; in relationship to others, anyone can become a tyrant. That's why no one can be a Superman. You have to go beyond yourself with a 'third eye' - self-awareness - because the one thing you cannot flee is yourself.

Mike Tyson is a good boxer, but he is not the best fighter. I am the best fighter.

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.

There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

Truly accomplished artists are humble and unaware of their abilities.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.

So really…what is war? A senseless battle between men's inflated ego.

As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.