I never had this ego where I must write everything. I’m not Bob Dylan.
It’s tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it’s really just concentration and focus.
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It’s an ego trip, and I’m not on an ego trip. I don’t have ambitions – I have a vision.
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can’t believe I won’t exist. It’s the ego isn’t it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don’t know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it’s just not going to happen, is it?
The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego’s hat off and leaving it at the door, then they can dive deep within themselves and we can pull out something interesting that people have never heard before. It’s the stuff that’s – that no one’s ever heard before is really interesting.
An actress must never lose her ego – without it she has no talent.
I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.
I try not to have too much of an ego. I’ll do anything.
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.
Being fired for bad performance or for having an alter ego that posts incredibly racist stuff is not cancel culture.
You cannot cave in saying something that is against your conscience and belief. That self-righteous ego is a must for any self-respecting, truth-loving person.
I think we appreciate the musicianship we’re surrounded with. Too many bands – it’s an ego trip for the leader.
The ego being shattered is not what frightens me – that can be useful for writing – but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
As a typical creative, I am all ego and insecurity!
I think Ronda’s biggest fear was losing to me, so if we were to do it in WWE, she would have to win. I don’t have such a big ego, but if we were to put on a show for the fans, something like that, no problem.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, being ref is a very tough job – managing 10 of the best athletes in the world. At the same time, I think there is way too much ego from their standpoint.
What I love about Salman bhai is that he’s one superstar minus any ego. And you see people around, who haven’t achieved much in life, yet their ego is too strong.
When it is working, you completely go into another place, you’re tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That’s what it’s all about.
This cycle of make a record, tour has been going on for 20 years now. I don’t even know why I do it sometimes. Do I need more money? Do I need more platinum and gold records? The only thing I can think of is ego.
You can’t have an ego when you’re a team. One person can’t really rule the roost.
Giving in to your ego is one of the oldest stories in the showbiz book. But so is figuring out how to stay vivid.
I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it’s about cooking. I’m one of the best cooks… and I cook in any language.
The worst quality in a man is a really big ego – that would turn me off.
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.
Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you’re doing.
When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.
Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it’s amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.
If I hadn’t become a golfer, I doubt I’d be wealthy, because I don’t have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.
You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
There’s no ego when you’re a ukulele player.
My ego is controlled enough that I don’t have to be the focus.
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.
My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.
I was an ego maniac with a self-esteem problem and that’s what most addicts are like.
My mother always told me never offend a man’s ego and never hurt a woman’s emotions – an advice I will not forget to pass on to my daughter.
I’ve totally sacrificed my ego. And what happens? God is giving me everything.
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.
There are certain societal laws that are just accepted, things that are arbitrary. I think the fun thing about psychotics is that they question that. It can be very freeing… like, my ego or my individuality trumps society’s law.
As a football player, you must have a big ego to respect yourself. So if you are a good player, you must say that you are good. You need to have the confidence.
I’ve gotten to a place where I’m better at curbing your ego, which usually happens when you’re feeling super small and scared about whatever you’re seeing, and you want to go read, ‘Oh, I hear there’s a really good article about me.’ I’ve gotten better about knowing that’s not going to end well, usually.
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
There’s not a lot of ego in the Broadway community. Everyone’s out to do well.
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader – the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It’s what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.
I’ve got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.
Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That’s why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.
Where id was, there ego shall be.
I’ve heard stories about keepers who couldn’t stand each other. Everyone in football has a big ego and we all think we should play. But it is not up to me that I or the other goalie is not playing.
I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn’t a star, just an actress. Forget it. I’m a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, ‘Reggie has a massive ego; he’s narcissistic, he’s cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,’ because that’s what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn’t let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.
I’m a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.
My poems getting published in Russia doesn’t make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I’m not trying to be coy, but it doesn’t tickle my ego.
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees – it’s a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.
Look at someone like Kanye West – ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.
I fed my ego, but not my soul.
I don’t want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they’ll be that way.
God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female, who is more about their mission that serves everyone than about ego and personal ambition that only serves them.
