Ego Quotes

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

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.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

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

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.