Ego Quotes - Page 40

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!

Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

There will never be a reunion, as I will never do anything with an asshole like Will Smith. He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up. This constant reunion thing will never ever happen in my lifetime unless there is an apology, which he doesn't know the word.

Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

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

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

In addition to hydropower, Oregon and the Northwest have pioneering companies leading the way in environmentally friendly energy technology.

The thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself. And that is why it is necessary to go to a guru who knows God and by absorbing his consciousness into yourself, you discover that you aren't this ego. You cross that abyss and you find that you are infinite.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.