Quotes About Ego

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

I hate that 'I got it' stuff. That drives me nuts. It's that natural instinct that everything's OK because you're winning.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.

Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

As actors, we have the best job in the world, but occasionally it can be made difficult by ego and by not listening to each other and lack of communication.

He was full of love—for himself, first, and his prowess—such a fine power at his age. Then, he felt a degree of love for her—

People with a good opinion of themselves tend to enjoy a double life.

most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.

People will say anything to appear interesting.

Al ritorno bisogna prendere il coraggio a due mani e fare il giro delle redazioni. Se non lo fate, per quanto siano belle le vostre foto, languiranno sugli scaffali. E' sempre difficile vendere il proprio lavoro perché ci si mette troppo ego. Abbiamo paura di essere giudicati, temiamo il rifiuto, viviamo male l'insuccesso.

Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become , the more you have to be grateful for.

Getting sucked into other people's ego dysfunction & darkness robs you of your own light.

But there's a thin line between pride and ego.

how does ego play in this situation?

If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.

There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.

If our systems should fail, we would faithfully report the fact. We have no ego-protection that would cause us to deceive you or ourselves. Whereasyou are engaged in ego-protection right now. You thought you would be necessary during the voyage, and you now discover that you were not. This makes you feel bad.

There is nothing so stupid or dangerous or painful that people won't eagerly do it, if by doing it they will make others believe they are better or stronger or more honorable. I have seen people poison themselves, destroy their children, abandon their mates, cut themselves off from the world, all so that others would think they were a better sort of person.