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Ego Quotes

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

Ego Permanent Little Absolutely

Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming, and more beloved than they appear to be to a casual observer, and that their stories about their careers are universally fascinating.

Stars People Ego Believe More

I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.

Good I Am Me Conflict Cold Ego

With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music.

Music Performance Ego Feel Exercise

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

David O. Russell

Humble Experience Spiritual Me Ego

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

Ego Enough Go Places Keep Get

As an actor, I'm always critical watching others; it's just the nature of the beast. For me, any performance that doesn't cause my ego to say, 'I can do that' really signifies that it's spectacular.

David Alan Basche

Nature Me Performance Ego I Can Say

When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.

Jonathan Maberry

Writing World Ego View Easy Career

When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.

Empathy People Ego Help Windows Go

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

Work Confidence Ego Strong Anxiety

You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.

Ego Think You Aggressive Wrestling

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Power People Small Ego Understanding

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Ego Individualism Extreme Surrealism

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

Woman Ego Never Up Filmmaker Would

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Vision Ambition Ego First Planet

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Ego Never Position Get Close Your

When you're making music or playing a song, I find the moments when there are no instruments being played even stronger than when they are being played. Because they add tension. It's also an ego-less thing - a place where you have no ego - when you're with a bunch of musicians who stop and listen instead.

Sarah McLachlan

Music Song Ego Musicians Moments

The big message of gospel is that you don't have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Good Ego Fighting Universe Loss You

If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.

People Control Ego Stand You Want

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Moment Man Ego Break Like

There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.

Community New York Writing Ego Young

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

Brian O'Driscoll

Ego Rugby Us Players

When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.

Work Good Ego You Compliment Admire

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

Ego New Want Wheel Reinvent Working

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