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Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.”

People Ifs Hard Shows Three Loses Audience Minutes Ego Ethics Making Money Work Ethic Show Business Great Work Great Work Ethic

Author:Norm MacDonald

“All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.”

Mind Self Results Quality Gone Ego Rounds Centre Realisation Old Soul Bad Qualities

Book:Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?”

Problem Bigs Faces Religion Ego Worship Worship You Big Ego Ego Problem

Author:Bill Maher

“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.”

Firsts Mother Guy Stuff Mom Ego Picks Males Beer Crap Lumps Macho Doughnut Male Ego

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.”

People Way Kind School Found Laughing Stage Fronts Balance Ego High School Overcoming Performing Shy Reserved Making People Laugh Shyness Ego Trip

Author:Steve Martin

“To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.”

Mean Able Decision Ego Shame Surrender Godly Falsity

Author:James McGreevey

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

Self Whole Business Ego Built Satisfaction Vanity Crap Self-satisfaction

Author:George Michael

“Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.”

Done Humility Ego Humble About Yourself Narcissism Carpe Diem Egotism Humility And Modesty

Author:Wilson Mizner

“Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.”

Persons Suffering Ego

Author:Michael Moore

“The ego is a fascinating monster.”

Ego Monsters Fascinating

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.”

“It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.”

Knows Believe Done Play Film Spirit I Believe Pleasure Pride Ego Percent Bigger Harmony I Believe In Crew Work Done Monsoons

Author:Mira Nair

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”

Inspirational Dog Ego Humorous Witty Climbs Sarcasm Famous Motivational

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.”

Inspiration Ego Assumption Bruises False Assumptions Mr Spock

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.”

Thinking Needs Persons Order Produce Scene Ego Electric Realised Programmes Maggie

Author:Michael Palin

“My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.”

People Knows Looks I Can Values Healthy Ego Projects Importance Popularity Look At Me Importance Of Family

Author:Jane Pauley

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”

Giving Powerful Ego Humorous Give Me Witty Museums

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.”

Humans Consciousness Ego Human Consciousness

Author:Max Planck

“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.”

Thinking Feelings Difficult Women Accepting Feminism Ego Independent Complexes Males Classic Fake People Being A Woman Feats Cambridge

Author:Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Ifs Political Politics Business Emotion Military Position Ego Shots Strategic Management

Author:Colin Powell

“If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.”

Ifs Mean Self Interest Ego Essentials Efficient Terrific Egotism Aquariums

Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine

“Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.”

Self Eye Turns Challenges Enemy Ego Inward Glances Counting Fasting

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.”

Games Minutes Ego Sake Compromise Game Over

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.”

People Way Giving Bigs Effort Ego Giving Up Patient Wave Be Patient Downfall Bail Male Ego

Author:Anna Benson

“I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.”

Thinking Art Artist Ego Sake Pretentious

Author:Lou Reed

“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!”

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.”

Ego Autobiography Indulgence

Author:Tom Robbins

“I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.”

Kind Reason Actors Goal Challenges Ego

Author:Seth Rogen

“Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.”

People Littles Reason Government President Position Ego Entering Moderates New Position

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”

“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.'”

Ifs Thinking Way Said Spiritual Laughing Journey Ego Humble Worthwhile Monk Spiritual Experience

Author:David O. Russell

“At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life.”

Men Has Beens Enough Whole Moments Shows Past Individual Causes Knowing Ego Details Every Man Chains Instant Solemn Past Life

Book:Death and After?

Source: Death and After?

“Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.”

Problem Goal Business Cry Ego Solutions Setting Goals Ego Problem

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.”

People Thinking Want States Bigs Able President United United States Generations Ego Vain Mars Future Generation

Author:Jello Biafra

“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!”

Fame Ego Driven Load Showbiz

Author:Ryan Seacrest

“An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.”

Persons Taste Ego Lows Humorous Profound Definitions Insane Egotism

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.”

Mean Self Today Consciousness Knowing Ego Reflection Realization Embarrassment Self Consciousness Impotence Fetish

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“I fed my ego, but not my soul.”

Soul Comedy Ego My Soul Feds

Author:Yakov Smirnoff

“The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.”

States Politics Ego Mass Welfare Elites Welfare State

Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.”

Looks Ego

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.”

Men Needs Made Two Would Be Challenges Successful Ego Harry Potter Spiders Potters Turned Down Spider Man

Author:Steven Spielberg

“If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.”

Ifs Should Believe Littles Humor Funny I Believe Grows Fronts Health Ego Eating Mirrors Clubs Work Out Health Care Muscles Psychiatrist

Author:Lewis Black

“Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.”

World Two Different Mom Ego Singers Selfless Being A Mom Different Worlds Two Different Worlds Being Selfless

Author:Gwen Stefani

“To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.”

People Believe Mean Bigs Views Strength Ego Areas Responsible

Author:Barbra Streisand

“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.”

Mind Process Memories Ego Achievement Possession Habitual Thought Process Personal History

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.”

Ifs Way Cases Ego Threat Defense Despite Vulnerable Mechanism Insecure Phantoms Defense Mechanisms

Book:Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.”

May Self Fear Ego Destruction Conceit Self Destruction Conceited Self Destruct Fine Feathers

Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.”

Knows Giving Ego Resistance Arrogance Defiance Meanness Nastiness

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.”

Attention Focus Ego Conscious Egotism

Book:Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek

Source: Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek

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