Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joey Santiago

It's not an ego thing. It just seems like an interesting thing to do. I'd like to go down to the Philippines and say, 'Hey, it's me, Joey Santiago from The Pixies. Give me a script, I want to be in a movie.

Ego must be strong enough to withstand it's own demise.

Jon Lewis

Ego isn't a part of it. Our trust in each other is huge.

James O'Shaughnessy

The model never varies. It never has an ego problem; it never has a fight with its spouse; it never wants to prove that it's right. The model is never hung-over after a night of partying -- it just does the same thing, time and time again. Very boring, very profitable.

Ernst Mach

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

Cassandra Clare

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

Mindy Kaling

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more.

Jim Butcher

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

Ken Wilber

Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.

H. L. Mencken

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Mitch Kupchak

I don't see any ego. It's like, 'Mitch, what do you need me to do?' He'll go anywhere. He's always been a worker, so I'm not surprised, but a lot of guys would not have taken that approach. He loves to contribute, and he loves to work.

Max Mayfield

I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation, ... New Orleans is never going to be the same.

Jaime Lerner

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

Iyanla Vanzant

The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.

Iyanla Vanzant

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

Iyanla Vanzant

The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.

Miles Davis

My ego only needs a good rhythm section

Marcel Proust

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.

Joni Mitchell

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Kevin Spacey

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

Joe Vitale

The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.

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.

Emile M. Cioran

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

Epictetus

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

Northrop Frye

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Norman Mailer

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

Oliver Stone

My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer.

Michael Moore

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

Terrell Owens

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

Mahatma Gandhi

When the ego dies, the soul awakes.