Quotes About Ego

People will jump through hoops if you just make them feel like a god.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

You are in love with yourself, aren't you?" He hmphed. "Someone has to be.

Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again.

Executive leadership ultimately goes to the candidate wearing the biggest codpiece. I

even reflected glory can be intoxicating.

Marina, feeling entitled, never really asked herself if she was good enough. Whereas he, Julius, asked himself repeatedly, answered always in the affirmative, and marveled at the wider world's apparent inability to see the light. He would have to show them.

If you choose to stay with us, Jaime, and if we choose to accept you, the pride, the vanity, must go. You will learn by observing and experiencing the training process, which, as you're probably gathering, won't always be easy and won't always be fun. But in the process, if you can set aside your preconceptions, your fear, and most especially your ego, you will achieve a level of peace and actualization that is tremendously freeing." Jaime

I swear, the bigger the bully, the smaller the dick.

Dorothea: What the fuck are you? Nix: A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind.

I have devoted the last twelve years of my life to public service, and I most certainly …" "You've devoted your entire life to yourself. You didn't run for the Senate because you wanted to help people. You ran for the Senate to feed your ego.

Once one acquired everything money could buy, it all became a game. A petty competition between people with insecurities that they mistook for ambition and superiority.

I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

Mo?liwe, ?e obstaj?c odrobin? zbyt uporczywie przy ni?szo?ci kobiet, profesor nie mia? wcale na uwadze ni?szo?ci kobiet w?a?nie, ale raczej swoj? w?asn? wy?szo??. To j? w?a?nie stara? si? ochroni? - a robi? to gor?czkowo i mo?e z nieco zbyt wielkim naciskiem, poniewa? jego wy?szo?? stanowi?a dla? nies?ychanie cenny klejnot.

I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.

I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a spacetraveller's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego

I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.

I wonder if during the course of these tragic notes, I have sufficiently stressed the sending quality of my striking, if perhaps somewhat brutal good looks". (Humbert in Lolita)

Only then does he have the chance to go beyond the limitations inherent in the various ego trips of Self 1 and to reach a new awareness of his true potential. Competition then becomes an interesting device in which each player, by making his maximum effort to win, gives the other the opportunity he desires to reach new levels of self-awareness.

Thus you have to rely on yourself to contain your own ego and recognize your inevitable blind spots. Be particularly cautious about losing your ability to listen. Not only do you need expertise from both within and outside the company to shore up your blind spots and weaknesses, but also a pipeline to people willing and able to bring you diverse views and bad news. Above all, you need to be able to recognize when you're part of the problem.

First two cells to diddle each other's genes: 'I'm only doing this, Anita, because I want your descendants to be an improvement on you.' 'Egotist.

The biggest noisemaker is your ego, your tendency to attach to things as me or mine.

We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives would exactly mirror our image of ourselves. Our lies about what is really happening in our lives are what we use to "patch up" our ego with rationalizations and justifications, all of which conceal from us the fact that we cannot really do anything because we have no Being.

People who quoted other people were showoffs, plain and simple.