Ego Quotes - Page 45

What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

The only thing happening in San Diego County is Eno and closet homosexuality.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.

It's 100% important to have a dialog with yourself going all the time. That's an ego talking to you, beckoning you to do more, but it's not the voice that you need to have in order to solidify the trust relationship. You have to be really transparent with yourself and say, "What can I do now?" What can I really do and how do I bring that into the world. In other words, those self-talk, we have to constantly be auditing, is our voice inside our best friend? If it's not, you have to make it your best friend.

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

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

Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him want to have power over a woman - whether it's in the bedroom or because they earn more money. It boosts their egos.

Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.

Now that I'm a pez and a LEGO I don't really want for any more.

What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

Esther Rantzen, like me, is an egomaniac of the highest order.

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Show me success without ego!

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.