Ego Quotes - Page 5

• The ego is not master in its own house.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self Worth, House, Masters

  "A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis" (1917)

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• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

  Peter O'Toole

  Food, Artist, Pixar

  "Fictional character: Anton Ego". "Ratatouille", www.imdb.com. June 22, 2007.

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• I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

  Joss Whedon

  Singing, Giants, Kevin

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

  Ato Boldon

  Caught, Performances, Egotism

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• Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Fiction, Blame, Social

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• In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

  Rajneesh

  Religion, East

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• I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

  Michael Hutchence

  Honest, Terrified, Muster

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

  Hans Arp

  Anxiety, Noise, Void

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• I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Tired, Past, Thinking

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• I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

  Barry Gibb

  Inferiority, Complexes, Huge

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Men, Chess Game, Psychology

  "Chess is a wonderful game, but it's no life coach" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.

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• I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything

  Rob Schneider

  Trying, Too Much

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• When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

  Michael Pitt

  Giving, Actors, Input

  "Q&A with 'Last Days' star Michael Pitt". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.tailslate.net. July 21, 2005.

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• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

  Alec Guinness

  Personality, Acting, Diction

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Sunset, Thinking

  Interview with David Sheff, Playboy, www.john-lennon.com. January 1981.

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• The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

  Ernst Mach

  Body, Littles, Permanent

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

  Chris Lowe

  Stupid, Long, Arrogance

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Sake

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• Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

  Ryan Seacrest

  Fame, Driven, Showbiz

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• I fed my ego, but not my soul.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Soul, Comedy, Feds

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• What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

  Epictetus

  World, Narcissism, Dies

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.220

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• If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

  Deepak Chopra

  Judging, Decision, Needs

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• Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Different, Should

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• An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.

  David Luiz

  Should, Breeze, Warm

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  House, Meals, Etcetera

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