Ego Quotes

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego. 
Roseanne Barr 

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. 
Will Eisner 

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 

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation. 
Ann Druyan 

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. 
Muhammed Iqbal 

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that. 
Dan Castellaneta 

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego. 
Alec Guinness 

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent. 
Tom Lehrer 

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud 

And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world. 
Taylor Hackford 

Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision. 
Darren L. Johnson 

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself. 
Martin Heidegger 

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. 
Colin Powell 

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 

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 

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. 
Colin Powell 

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix. 
Don Dokken 

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! 
Pat Riley 

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. 
Robert Anton Wilson