Ego Quotes - Page 24

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.

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.

The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.

Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.

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.

Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.