Ego Quotes - Page 9

• Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

  Diane Black

  Humorous, Humility, Space

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

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Want, Individual

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• Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

  Lorna Luft

  Ghouls, Doors, Asking

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fake People, Women, Independent

  "Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness". Book by Edward Butscher (p. 181), 2003.

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• Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Birthday, Ambition, Age

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

  Betty Dodson

  Girlfriend, Men, Dating

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• We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Love, Happy Life, Mind

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• A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it

  Matthew Barney

  Character, Doe, Way

  The ART21 Interview, art21.org. September, 2003.

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• I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Stubborn, Benefits, May

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• A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Eye, People, Done

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• I, in the end, make art for myself.

  Anish Kapoor

  Art, Ends

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• There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

  Giorgio Armani

  Ambition, Artist, Consumers

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• The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

  George Michael

  Business, Vanity, Self

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• When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.

  Craig Groeschel

  Gratitude, Filled, Altars

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• Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

  John Bradshaw

  Self, Spotlight, Flashlights

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem”, p.249, Health Communications, Inc.

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• There are only two states of consciousness that exist - the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego is the narrow state, the seed-form, the atomic stage; love is all encompassing, love is God. The center of the ego is I; the ego exists for itself. The nectar of love is the universe. Love exists for all.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Two, Consciousness

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• You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.

  Jean Houston

  Cells, Soul, Singing

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• I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

  Theophile Gautier

  Men, World, Outside World

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• Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Promise, Bedtime

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• In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Character, Perception, Novel

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• 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.

  William Kennedy

  Voice, Empty Rooms, Self

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• 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.

  Hugh Downs

  Air, Oxygen, Missing

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• But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

  Robert Conrad

  Thinking, Film, Let Me

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• Gentlemen, start your egos!

  Billy Crystal

  Gentleman, Comedy

  "Sunday Night" with Rahni Sadler, au.news.yahoo.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

  Brad Moore

  Pride, Would Be, Taste

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