Ego Quotes - Page 18

• Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

  Dan Brown

  Politics, Underestimate, Politician

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.712, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Throat, Augusta

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• With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

  Joe Walsh

  Perspective, Musical, Levels

  Source: thequietus.com

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• For me, the only ego that needs serving in putting together a film is the story's, the ego of the story and it's the piece itself that you want to bring out the voice of the piece. You're really serving that and that's the thing that you have a basic understanding of.

  Julia Ormond

  Voice, Understanding, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility.

  Sebastian Copeland

  Humility, Goal, Desire

  Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2010.

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• Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.

  Afia Nathaniel

  Males, Fantasy, Film

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.

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• I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.

  Colin Firth

  Past, Thinking, People

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never get to do in real life - and it appeals to my ego as an actor to play the Queen of Everything. I admit it.

  Virginia Madsen

  Queens, Real, Character

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". movieweb.com. January 07, 2009.

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• I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

  Steve Carell

  Thinking, People, Perception

  "Steve Carell Talks About Dan in Real Life". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. October 22, 2007.

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• When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could do something exciting there.

  I. M. Pei

  Opportunity, Museums, Wings

  Source: archtalks.com

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• One of the things that is always difficult about a collaboration is that you don't necessarily find the same thing funny. And so the challenge becomes, how do you tell the other person that you don't think something's funny? The best collaborations tend to be when you are willing to be told that. But there's also ego involved, and so there's a lot of frustration in knowing that you're writing something, and the other person, on some level, needs to think that it's funny.

  Michael Showalter

  Writing, Thinking, Frustration

  "Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter have issues". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2009.

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• Some people have bigger egos than others. You have to take a lot of abuse, and take it in and not respond, because you don't want conflicts on the movie, you don't want to start screaming at people even when they treat you - even when they're not behaving properly, because you want them to do their job, and keep on doing it.

  Julie Delpy

  Jobs, People, Abuse

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2007.

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• The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Careers, Would Be

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• As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

  Richard Linklater

  Odds, Government, Opinion

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.

  Laura Benanti

  Teenager, Thinking, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you're letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Thinking, Needs, Want

  "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.

  Karen Armstrong

  Spring, Buddhism, Talking

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome.

  Jackie Warner

  People, Television, Nightmare

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

  Anne Bancroft

  Reality, Training, Consciousness

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• The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

  Robert Barron

  Letting Go, Fun, Drama

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• You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

  Peter Kreeft

  Evil, Twins, Always With You

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• By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Lying, Roots, Insanity

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• I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in my best interest all the time. Even when climbing I can't escape the clutches of my ego. The reason why I started climbing was because I could be free from myself.

  Chris Sharma

  Powerful, Real, Climbing

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• The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

  Ramakrishna

  Morning, Thinking, Roots

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• I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

  Shepard Fairey

  Pride, Self, Design

  Source: www.complex.com

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