Quotes About Ego

Obviously I have this strange animal magnetism. It's very hard to take my eyes off myself.

I did that," says my memory. "I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually—??the memory yields. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine

Good writers serve their stories; bad writers serve their own agendas.

I think; therefore, I am above average.

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

Bannon had announced himself as Trump's brain, a boast that vastly irritated the president.

The story of Trump was the story of how he tried to make himself a story.

Good management reduces ego. But in the Trump White House, it could often seem that nothing happened, that reality simply did not exist, if it did not happen in Trump's presence.

His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

Much of the president's daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him.

He was, after all, Donald Trump, however much you shined him up.

Trump problem. He hopelessly personalized everything. He saw the world in commercial and show business terms: someone else was always trying to one-up you, someone else was always trying to take the limelight.

Trump did not want a White House that ran by any method other than to satisfy his desires.

Dopey Don Jr. (Fredo, as Steve Bannon would dub him, in one of his frequent Godfather borrowings) was simply trying to prove he was a player and a go-to guy.

Trump's need for constant affirmation and his almost complete inability to talk about anything but himself.

the Trump bubble. Trump was incapable of admitting vulnerability—any at all.

Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.

Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

If the fluidification of forms of behavior required by a developed economy was incompatible with a normative catalog of restrained conduct, it was, however, perfectly suited to a perpetual celebration of the will and the ego.

El efecto beneficioso de la compañía de un perro proviene de que es posible hacerlo feliz; pide cosas tan simples, su ego es tan limitado...

I'm going to do what you did," it ran, "only I'm going to do it quicker, better and for more money. Because I'm me.