Quotes About Ego

The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests. Though I don't know as there are any other kind.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old it is easier still.

Never trust a leader who proclaims himself a leader before anyone else does.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

I know what it is! We've arrived at the West Coast! We're all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody's in, this hyped-up, fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country.

These false images are deflated so rapidly and completely you're bound to be very discouraged very soon if you've derived your gumption from ego rather than Quality.

Iedere inspanning die zelfverheerlijking tot uiteindelijk doel heeft, moet op een ramp uitdraaien.

When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That's never the way.

Ich bin immer in einem Mann-Mannesverhältnis zu den sogenannten großen Ideen gestanden; vielleicht auch zu den mit Recht so genannten: Ich glaube mich nicht zur Unterordnung geboren, sie haben mich gereizt, sie zu stürzen und andere an ihrer Stelle zu setzen. Ja, vielleicht bin ich gerade von dieser Eifersucht zur Wissenschaft geführt worden, deren Gesetze man in Gemeinschaft sucht und auch nicht für unverbrüchlich ansieht.

He's interested in Willie. Quite simply and directly. And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's only the half-baked people like Mr. Patton who are interested in money. Even the big boys who make a real lot of money aren't interested in money. Henry Ford isn't interested in money. He is interested in Henry Ford and therefore he is a genius.

When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out.

Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure that you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all…You fix things that don't need fixing, and chase after imaginary ailments. You jump to wild conclusions and build all kinds of errors into the machine because of your own nervousness. These errors, when made, tend to confirm your original underestimation of yourself.

Don't let pride get in your way. Pride is a luxury that sometimes you can't afford.

If you have read this far, arrogance is not one of your problems. Arrogant people rarely read or listen to experts. Why should they? They are the center of the universe.

Many people use arrogance to hide their own ignorance.

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now.

It's actually wonderful to see that you're nobody and that all the fear you've had all your life was in relation to this self you thought you had.

This process—of appropriating everything as me or mine—is constantly going on and has as its whole basis the existence of a self.

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

It does hurt my ego that you sit there all itty-bitty and cute as hell, and you must be more dangerous than I will ever be.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.