Ego Quotes - Page 35

• People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

  Simon Cowell

  People, Insecurity, Lust

  "Simon Cowell confesses that the pressure would have killed him if he had been a child star" by Halina Watts, www.mirror.co.uk. June 1, 2013.

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• Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.

  Simon Cowell

  Littles, Too Much, Way

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• I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

  Ray Dalio

  Believe, Humanity, Weakness

  "Mastering the Machine". Interview with John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. July 25, 2011.

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• I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

  Fred Durst

  Great Things, Walks, Confidence In Yourself

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• I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Children, Home, School

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• 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.

  Paul Engle

  New York, Writing, Iowa

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• Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

  Vera Farmiga

  Editing, Zits, Coins

  "Actress Farmiga at Sundance with directing debut". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, uk.reuters.com. January 24, 2011.

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• At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

  Paul Feig

  People, The End Of The Day, Want

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• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  Sally Field

  Long, Long Time, Long Time Ago

  "Sally Field, ‘Lincoln’ Star, On Politics And Looking Back On ‘Smokey And The Bandit’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

  Carly Fiorina

  Track, Dynamics, Agendas

  "A very bad business". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

  Taylor Hackford

  People, Desire, Needs

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

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• 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.

  Lauryn Hill

  Believe, Hero, Names

  "Lauryn Hill’s Thesis On Where Art & Corporate Interests Meet Recalls Dave Chappelle’s Escape" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. June 10, 2012.

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• Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

  Reid Hoffman

  Greed, Sloth, Linkedin

  "Reid Hoffman", www.wsj.com. June 23, 2011.

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• 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.

  Whitney Houston

  Crazy, Play, People

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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

  Religious, Moving, Destiny

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

  Jesse Jackson

  White, Church, Agendas

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• Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

  Mick Jagger

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Teacher

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• Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Actors, Delicate

  Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 13, 2006.

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• I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Movie, Stars, Self

  "Shah Rukh Khan: 'My job is to make people smile'" by Grace Wong, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2010.

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• I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Social Network

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• You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

  Christine Lagarde

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

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• Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Break Up, Breakup, Differences

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

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• Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

  Greg LeMond

  Selfish, Years, Wife

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• I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Self, World

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