Ego Quotes - Page 36

• I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Work Ethic, Three

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• Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

  Harvey Mackay

  Believe, People, Done

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• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Mind, Quality

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

  Steve Martin

  School, People, Laughing

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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• To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

  James McGreevey

  Mean, Godly, Decision

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• Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

  Michael Moore

  Suffering, Persons

  Interview with Andrew Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2002.

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• Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Birthday, Sarcasm, Thinking

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

  Mira Nair

  Believe, Pride, Play

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• There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.

  Michael Palin

  Thinking, Order, Needs

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• My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

  Jane Pauley

  People, Healthy, Looks

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  Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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

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• Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Eye, Self, Challenges

  "Ramadan is over, but the struggle goes on". www.abc.net.au. August 20, 2012.

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

  Gordon Ramsay

  Games, Sake, Compromise

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• Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

  Tom Robbins

  Autobiography, Indulgence

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• I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.

  Seth Rogen

  Goal, Challenges, Actors

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• Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Needs, Horrible Person

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1998.

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• Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Government, People, President

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Work, Stress

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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• 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

  Spiritual, Humble, Thinking

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

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• The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

  Thomas Sowell

  Politics, Welfare, States

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.23, Hoover Press

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• I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.

  Steven Spielberg

  Successful, Men, Two

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• Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Two, Selfless

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• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Achievement, Mind

  "Sunday Profile: Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Dan Harris, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2009.

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• Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Insecure, Defense, Way

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.28, New World Library

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• You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Giving, Arrogance, Nastiness

  Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. September 14, 2012.

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