Search in quotes: ego

11 quotes

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

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

Quote by John Bradshaw about self-control

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at...

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Quote by Dean Acheson about attention, public, man

And if you can't keep your ego under control, it's going...

And if you can't keep your ego under control, it's going to cost you a lot of money.

Quote by Al Alvarez about opinion, money, contentment

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that...

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

Quote by Al Alvarez about poker, things, contentment

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

Quote by Glenn Close about question, prestige, suffering, rightness, being

I can imagine the ego inviting power, respect, all those...

I can imagine the ego inviting power, respect, all those sorts of things. I'm not hugely ambitious in those directions.

Quote by Colin Firth about respect, power, things

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

Quote by Peter Fonda about actors, writers, knowledge, work

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.

Quote by Whitney Houston about commerce, miracle, hell, people

Disease, a suave alter ego, your chimeric and bitter double.

Disease, a suave alter ego, your chimeric and bitter double.

Quote by Iulian Boldea about malady, bitter, body

The Ego and my oneself, I myself advancing to the place...

The Ego and my oneself, I myself advancing to the place in which I rest forevermore – resolved in sky blue, and on the Way to always for “to be” – into PURE ONESELF...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about philosophy

I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from...

I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Quote by Albert Einstein about spirit

Last quotes

You shoot my finger, trigger finger, boss finger, Boian... (Anghel Damian)

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am.... (Kim Ung-Yong)

Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction... (Albert Einstein)

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of... (Albert Einstein)

Top quotes

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the... (William Blake)

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is... (Henry Ford)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the... (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)

Random quotes

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by... (C. Northcote Parkinson)

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was,... (Mark Oliphant)

In the eyes of your professor, you are ALWAYS wrong, so... (Edward A. Murphy)

Certainly the idea of an international police force... (Lester B. Pearson)

Authors

Famous quotes

Folklore