Quotes About Ego

Multitracking keeps egos in check. If your boss has three pet projects in play, chances are she'll be open to unvarnished feedback about them, but if there's only one pet project, it will be harder for her to hear the truth. Her ego will be perfectly conflated with the project.

It seems some CEOs who pay extremely large acquisition premiums Ã¢â'¬Â¦ come to believe their own press.

This is a critical point: Multitracking keeps egos in check. If your boss has three pet projects in play, chances are she'll be open to unvarnished feedback about them, but if there's only one pet project, it will be harder for her to hear the truth. Her ego will be perfectly conflated with the project. So

I broke the first rule, the unwritten one, meant not just for warriors but all of us: I took love and used it as a balm to soothe my ego.

The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don't get attached to them. And: When a man reaches a state where honor and dishonor are alike to him, then he is considered supreme. Strive to gain such a state.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

My brothers must be as tired of this as I, dragging love as a tally board behind us, marking off an endless but complex math of ego and one-upmanship and debt. But the men who came before us didn't teach us another way.

Beware of ANY vision at all in which you personally have been singled out to play a lead role in the redoing of all human history. You haven't.

Pero la psicología moderna nos dice que los individuos sanos y felices también tienen un profundo sentido de propósito. Es decir, representan valores apreciados, se sienten conectados con otras personas y están al servicio de causas más nobles que ellos mismos y sus egos.

Ihr überhebt euch über alles und alle, das verstellt euch den Blick für das, was wirklich ist, auch dafür, wie ihr wirklich seid.

When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.

V is for vanity, every time I look at me I turn myself on, yeah

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

During my many years of interviewing murderous psychopaths, I have noted all of them have over-inflated egos.

They are narcissists, pumped full of self-esteem, but that self-esteem is always hanging by a thread and once pricked, their egos burst like a balloon.

Simon had the awesome charisma of one who was born for greatness; if accompanied by the detestable arrogance of one who knew it.

People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

Heinrich Harrer: That's the Olympic gold medal. Not important. Pema Lhaki: This is another great difference between our civilization and yours. You admire the man who pushes his way to the top in any walk of life, while we admire the man who abandons his ego.

It seemed to me that there was a self-interest hidden in the core of all of us, which cooled us when we contemplated any fate which did not touch us directly.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

Flirting is the act of making a man feel pleased with himself.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.