Ego Quotes

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

Agnes Martin

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As big as my ego may be, I'm really not of the belief that I can't be replaced. I didn't invent the wheel. There's someone else out there who can do what I do, maybe a little differently. I believe that Kiss is bigger than its individual members.

Paul Stanley

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We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.

Jill Tarter

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I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.

Elfriede Jelinek

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I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

Sharon Bolton

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I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!

Jennifer Fallon

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Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

Yolanda Hadid

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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Northrop Frye

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The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

Andrew Cohen

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I don't like my ego stroked too much.

Victoria Azarenka

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The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Ridley Scott

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I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully.

Maxine Peake

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It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

Taylor Hackford

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I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.

Nicole Polizzi

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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Robert H. Schuller

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That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

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It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

Richard Dawkins

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Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

Jean Piaget

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I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

Michael B. Jordan

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No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Muhammad Iqbal

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I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.

Amy Adams

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My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.

Manal al-Sharif

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I am very sure of the ground I stand on. I am also very sure that it is the path shared by republicans across this island genuinely interested in building a new agreed Ireland: republicans who put Ireland before ego, criminality, and self-gain.

Martin McGuinness

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