Ego Quotes - Page 39

I hate everything which is not in myself.

Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership, it's like alter egos. It's like James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, or Fellini and Mastroianni. I'm not comparing, I'm just saying, if you can come into a relationship where the director and star have such a bond, it's so much easier to make a movie.

Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

All I am is what I create. It's my blessing to share with the world.

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not trample upon the egos of those we deal with.

Ego & Hype have no place in business.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.

We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!

Anytime I feel my feathers ruffle off of someone else's success, I have to check myself. It's normally fear based or ego related and it's my daily work to let it go and focus on me, because that's the only person I can control and make grow.

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.