Quotes About Ego

It's not common for your best player to also be your most unselfish player.

I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

I may have my diva moments, but I don't want to get to where I'm considered untouchable.

That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

Macho does not prove mucho.

The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Failure has gone to his head.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

Steve Bannon puts himself above everything.

Steve Bannon, you know, discovered that there's nothing more powerful than a humiliated man.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.