Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bjork

I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.

The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average.

John Oates

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

Orson Scott Card

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

Ram Dass

One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.

Ram Dass

The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

Ram Dass

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

Ram Dass

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

Ram Dass

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

Ram Dass

At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.

Lesley Manville

Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

Bette Davis

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

Larry approached it without ego. He was very service-oriented, and it seems like it worked.

Tom Smith

Such is the nature of the human ego; it resents its betters and gloats at its lessers.

Staying together as one unit. Nobody letting their ego take over the team.

Man's ego itself is Maya. It is the veil that shuts the light.

I think that's very important. He's not an ego person, or anything like that,

Mark Johnson

Part of our message to the players is putting individual egos aside, and playing for the team. At the end of the day, if you win something, it's because everybody was able to sacrifice.

Charlie Sheen

Get your egos off the battlefield.

Carl Jung

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

Billy Ocean

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Billy Porter

How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

Ludwig von Mises

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

Pierce Brosnan

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

We have a group of great guys, ... We don?t have any egos on this team. We don?t have any jerks on this team. We have a group of guys that makes it fun for everybody to come to work every day.

Bill Cowher

We have a very healthy organization. It starts at the top. There's no ego involved. We try to get things done as a team.

Robbie Williams

I think my ego needs pampering-I need to be on stage again. So I've started writing, and I'm in the studio next week.

William Proxmire

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: "Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

Gabriel Macht

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

Edward de Bono

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

Eckhart Tolle

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.