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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Max Planck
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
John Bradshaw
Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
Mike Krzyzewski
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud
Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!
Ryan Seacrest
Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
Lorna Luft
For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines.
Marc Morial
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
Robert H. Schuller
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
John Cheever
I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
Joss Whedon
I fed my ego, but not my soul.
Yakov Smirnoff
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
Michael Hutchence
I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.
Rutger Hauer
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Barry Gibb
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
I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
Bobby Fischer
I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
Jim Carrey
I own and operate a ferocious ego.
Bill Moyers
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
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
Ego is good.
Thomas Leonard
