Quotes About Ego

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

Nobody is better than me.

I'm the greatest living thing in the universe.

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

I think that my "Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes.