Top 1200 Inflated Ego Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.

On 'Vikings,' nobody's got an ego. Michael Hirst is just so open and so collaborative.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.

I think everyone is a little egocentric, but when I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.

You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process.

I don't have any ego, and I will go and audition for parts if I'm offered an interesting script.

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like being deflated, which makes it all the more important to continue to deflate them. These are very courageous people around the world who poke fun from inside these societies. So, we now have to broaden the definition of what we mean by "writer" to include bloggers, cartoonists, song writers, visual artists - all these people are, in different ways, quite brave.

Italy may well be the main problem. It has benefited most from the euro by having been able to get the euro interest rate instead of what otherwise would have been its own. That would be much higher because Italy has been accumulating so much debt. In the past, Italy has inflated away its debt. The virtue of the euro is that Italy can't do it alone. A tight ECB policy wouldn't permit that to happen again.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

There's a property in Panama where Trump has collected somewhere around $30 million just from selling his name to this property - it's somewhere between $30 million and $50 million. It would be so easy for a developer to slap on an extra $6 million to a Trump licensing deal and have that be a backdoor bribe. Who are we to say what that is worth? It's so ephemeral. And this is the appeal of selling something as ephemeral as a brand name, is that it can be inflated beyond all reason.

If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.

In 'Legend,' I was burning with ego. In 'JJN,' I am playing someone who can die for his prestige.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

I've done 'The Love Boat' twice. I had a great time, but my ego rails against it.

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

I think we appreciate the musicianship we're surrounded with. Too many bands - it's an ego trip for the leader.

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

Sitting with the poor and less fortunate people removes the ego and pride from your heart.

Certainly, with my giant overinflated ego, playing in the CFL would have been like failing.

I'd always surfed with my ego - I had to get the biggest, best wave - and a lot of it was for survival.

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.