Quotes About Ego

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

A lot of athletes are stuck on themselves and don't want to socialize and that kind of thing. When I see that, I hate it.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

I'm into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it.

I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.

All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Blogging Is Pure Vanity

EGO is the only requirement to destroy any relationship. So, be a BiGGER person, skip the E and let it GO

People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful.

It is only your own ego which can feel embarrassment. Are you frightened of making mistakes and feeling foolish? Why? No one is perfect so you are bound to make some mistakes; so am I; so is everyone else. But it is how we react after making those mistakes which is important. We can apologies; we can try to put matters right; we can acknowledge the errors. And that is all we can do.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.

because it requires the total surrender of my will and finally, ultimately, the wholesale destruction of my ego. That is hard. It I'm going to another world, I cry out, I want to be ME in it.

As everyone knows, in my profession we go around screwing each other as much as possible, mostly to see ourselves do it. Narcissists are always making love to number one.

Social media draws us further into the already persistent habit of becoming stars of our own little personal movies. The movies we replay in our heads — held on to from lives past — cause us to recycle stories that no longer serve us, if they ever did.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.