Ego Quotes - Page 34

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

All perishable is but an allegory.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

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?

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses

Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.