Top 1200 Inflated Ego Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

The thing I like to stress about TV is that it's a team exercise. You really can't have too much of an ego.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

Brunette is who I am obviously, it's my core. Blonde Kim is this alter ego; she has a vibe to her that I love.

Giving in to your ego is one of the oldest stories in the showbiz book. But so is figuring out how to stay vivid.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

I have not come to having a healthy ego through being complimented by Internet strangers, I was born that way.

The best way to tell an actor he's going to be working more and much harder is to appeal to his ego.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.

The only time I had an ego is I when wanted to have a reverse Undertaker record at WrestleMania, and they messed it up!

Tina Snow' was more turnt up than anything I ever dropped, it's my alter ego.

Obviously everybody, if you're playing in the league, you've got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom on your stomach like ballast, while interacting with your gastric juices to form an incipient belch of enormous potential, an airship which had been inflated in a garage. This belch, when silently released, would cause people standing twenty yards away to start examining the soles of their shoes. The vocalized version sounded like a bag of tools thrown into a bog.

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal.

To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

Every girl has a dream - she wants a perfect husband. But that is not possible. There will be ego clashes and one has to compromise.

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue.

I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

Politics, for me, is not a competition to see who's got the bigger ego. It's working together for the good of the people.

It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.

Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it's - it's another ego separation tool.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

The soul is stronger than the ego. It lives to BE, and give. We are of one Light, illuminating ourselves and those whom we love.

You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.

The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.

A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.

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