“When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.” GivingActorsDirectorsEgoScaredDrivenInput Author:Michael Pitt
“There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.” PeopleKnowsArtistEgoExcuseDrivenBunchUpset Author:Rico Love
“Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.” KnowsIdeasSportsEmotionalEgoDrivenBoxingOver It Author:Mike Tyson
“We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.” HumansMistakeHumilityEgoDrivenShallow Author:F. Sionil José
“I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck". My motives and values are very different.” DifferentSelfHelpingValuesOpinionSucceedEgoEntrepreneurInvestingSatisfactionDrivenFactorsMotiveServingBucksSelf Serving Author:Ron Conway
“The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensStillsAgeHumanityTermDarkClearBecomingEgoBuiltPrisonDepthCaughtDrivenBarsChainsPersistencePrisonerLockedLocksSteelReignCaught UpDominationSkepticalDark AgesMisinformationReflexesWardens Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.'” MenShouldHumorFunnyLyingEgoMy FriendsDrivenSwearConquestSwear To God Author:Adam Ferrara
“I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.” PeopleThinkingTryingEgoPerceptionDriven Author:Steve Carell
“Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven.” PlayerTeamEgoDrivenMessiTeam Player Author:Jurgen Klinsmann
“The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all....It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well...you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.” BelieveHumansWellsCan DoGreaterFocusEgoDrivenTendenciesSignificanceHumblingFree YourselfPersonal Success Author:Bob Buford
“You should be able to drink a clean cup of water and you should be able to write your own name. That's the kind of stuff that holds dear to me, not I'm the best rapper. That doesn't matter to me. At that point it's all ego to me and I don't want to be driven by that and I try my best not to.” WantShouldWritingTryingKindMatterAbleNamesStuffWaterDrinkEgoCleanDearDrivenCupsRapperWrite Your OwnBest Rapper Author:Asher Roth
“Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and not at all driven by ego or championing who he is as an individual. It's all about the art. Whereas Herzog is constantly placing himself into the engine. Malick is such a gentle poet.” ArtCharacterIndividualSidesTermPoetEgoDrivenGentleEnginesSpectrumRecluse Author:Sam Pressman
“[Doctor Strange] is still quite cocky by the end of the film. No, I'd say the major curve for him is that he learns that it's not all about him, that there's a greater good. But what he thinks he was doing as a neurosurgeon, that was good because it benefitted people's health was really just a furtherment of his attempts to control death and control his own fate and other people's, but that's still driven by the ego.” PeopleThinkingStillsEndsFilmGreaterFateStrangeEgoMajorsDoctorsDrivenCurvesCockyGreater GoodNeurosurgeons Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“For me, it's never been an ego situation where I have been "I'm the boss; expletive you." It's always been a situation where someone comes to me and says "I can't tolerate working with you anymore" and I would admit sometimes I wouldn't blame them for that. But I also sometimes think I'm not that difficult to figure out. I don't really know what has driven people to be so angry and bitter - people like my old keyboard player Pogo, who I've known for such a long time. I feel bad for him, but there are grievances with everything.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsLongHas BeensI CanSometimesDifficultSituationKnownPlayerFiguresEgoLong TimeBlameAngryDrivenBitterBossTolerateKeyboardsGrievanceExpletivesKeyboard PlayersBitter People Author:Marilyn Manson
“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!” FameEgoDrivenLoadShowbiz Author:Ryan Seacrest
“There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.” WorldSelfFictionEgoDrivenPhysicsMemoirAweContractsSelf CenteredNon Fiction Author:Nick Flynn
“This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.” WorldMindHeartWholeRealityLyingLeftSinFantasyKeysRight NowEgoIllusionUnityGreedDrivenDivisionClevernessLeft OutLoopsVeneerRevolutionary Ideas Author:Bill Hicks
“I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.” WantKindDangerousEgoStandingExpectedDriven Author:Kathleen McGowan
“Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it’s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it’s going to fail.” IfsSelfSeemsMightOrderFailingMysterySucceedEgoUniversalDeeperDrivenMemoirGenreUniversal Truth Author:Nick Flynn
“As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.” WaySelfEgoIllusionConnectionsDrivenEmpoweringContemplatingHolisticSeparateness Author:Wayne Dyer
“If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards ego-driven disharmony. Traditionalist conservatives know that absent the restraining hand of religion, tradition, or the state, there is nothing to prevent human beings from acting in ways contrary to their own best interests, or those of the community.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWayBelieveHumansStatesHandsLeftInterestCommunityReligiousHuman BeingsSinActingEgoTraditionOriginalsConservativeDrivenContraryDevicesFlawedAbsentIf You BelieveOriginal SinRestrainingDisharmony Author:Rod Dreher