Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's obviously an ego here that needs to be satisfied.

Brandon Boyd

What Can I do?", You say, It's just another day in the life of Apes with ego trips

They play to each other's strengths. They play with an unselfish spirit, and they play to win without any ego.

Dalai Lama

Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering.

Al Groh

If you're not happy with this win, fellows, you got a problem with your ego. I'm happy to win. It's been nine months since we won a game. I'm real happy to win. I told the players that . . . We won. That's a pretty good feeling. Now we got one more win than Oklahoma's got, and that feels pretty good, too.

Al Groh

If you're not happy with this win, fellows, you got a problem with your ego, ... I'm happy to win. It's been nine months since we won a game. I'm real happy to win. I told the players that . . . We won. That's a pretty good feeling. Now we got one more win than Oklahoma's got, and that feels pretty good, too.

J. D. Salinger

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

J. D. Salinger

This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

Ivana Trump

Show me success without ego!

Jack McDevitt

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

He's really fun to be around, plus he has no ego.

Daryl Hall

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

Michael Clarke

His interest is in his ego not getting in the way of choices.

Scott Hamilton

I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.

Rajneesh

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

Rajneesh

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Rajneesh

"Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be. A wants to be B - the ego is created out of this very tension. How does the ego die? The ego dies by you accepting what you are. That you say, "I am fine as I am, where I am is good. I will remain just as existence keeps me. Its will is my will."

Rajneesh

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Rajneesh

You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain wealth in this world, then you try to attain wealth in that world. But you remain the same, and the mind and the functioning and the whole scheme remains the same: Attain! Reach! This is the ego trip. The achieving mind is the ego.

Rajneesh

Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a beggar who has nothing else you will find the same ego as you will find in Alexander the Great, because desiring is the same. Alexander the Great may have much money and much power, that does not matter; he is still desiring. The beggar may not have anything, but he is also desiring.

Michael Hutchence

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining

Randy Jackson

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

Randy Newman

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

Emraan Hashmi

I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.

Jacque Fresco

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.

Plautus

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

Plautus

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate. [Lat., Bono ingenio me esse ornatam, quam auto multo mavolo. Aurum fortuna invenitur, natura ingenium donum. Bonam ego, quam beatam me esse nimio dici mavolo.

Martin Parr

I am what I photograph.

James Joyce

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

James Redfield

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

Johnny Carson

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

Nora Roberts

Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.