Egomania Quotes

• To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

  Judith Crist

  Two, Style, Three

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• We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity -- self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness -- are the least attractive in a friend.

  Tonya Hurley

  Stars, Dna, Self

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• It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Beautiful, Thinking, Forever

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• Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

  Laozi

  Life, Thinking, Light

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

  Herb Kelleher

  Forgiving, Weakness, Pretension

  "The 'I Am' Q&A". CNBC interview, www.cnbc.com.

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• Nothing is more important than my egomania!

  Clara

  Important, Deep Breath

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• Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

  Herb Kelleher

  Responsibility, Boat, Should

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• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• … that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.

  Amos Oz

  Loneliness, Self, Hands

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• Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.

  Herb Kelleher

  Air, People, Cost

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• Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

  Herb Kelleher

  Firsts, Treats, Employee

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• One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

  Herb Kelleher

  People, Advice, Mind

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• The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

  Herb Kelleher

  Worry, Window, Clear

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• I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

  Herb Kelleher

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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• To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Giving, Goal

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 06, 2014

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• Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

  Marianne Moore

  Blessed, Genius, Duty

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.173, Penguin

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• Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Memorial Day, Sorry, War

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• When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified.

  Harlan Ellison

  Self Esteem, Typewriters, Deep Breathing

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Shatterday”, p.199, Open Road Media

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• It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

  William Manchester

  Tragedy, Events, Essentials

  William Manchester (1983). “American Caesar”, Laurel

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• This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

  Tina Fey

  Queens, Levels, Pope

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• Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.

  David Foster Wallace

  Strong, Real, Loneliness

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• About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

  Simon Amstell

  Spiritual, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Voice, Race

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• Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don’t think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we’d seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them--it’s very interesting. It still holds up, and it’s still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.

  Martin Scorsese

  Photography, Powerful, Character

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