“The second show I did on TV, I was the lead. I made $900 and I was having fun saying some other guy's words. This is a dangerous profession for the ego.”— Telly Savalas, m.imdb.com
“The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. Blind to the rest who do.”— Warsan Shire, twitter.com
“So crucify the ego, before it's far too late, To leave behind this place so negative and blind And cynical - and you will come to find that, We are all one mind capable of All that's imagined and all conceivable, Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through, And let them pass right t…”— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com
“Courage is the key to creativity and to any relinquishing of ego structure.”— Timothy Leary, books.google.com
“The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“It’s left to the private individual to be his own priest. But not only that. It’s also left to him to be he his own poet, his own philosopher, his own king, and his own master builder in the cathedral of his personality. The ultimate roots of romanticism and the romantic phenomenon lie in the privat…”— Carl Schmitt, amazon.com
“At extreme levels, entitlement is a toxic narcissistic trait, repeatedly exposing people to the risk of feeling frustrated, unhappy and disappointed with life. Often times, life, health, aging and the social world don’t treat us as well as we’d like. Confronting these limitations is especially threa…”— Joshua Grubbs, spring.org.uk
“When egos & the need to control gets in the way then some would rather hurt the ones they love than show them they're vulnerable. Stay you.”— Dr. Gia Sison, twitter.com
“Think less about killing your ego and more about not identifying with what it wants.”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com
“Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.”— Karl Marx , cddc.vt.edu
“An egocentric mind is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.”— Carl Jung, amazon.com
“I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.”— LCD Soundsystem, open.spotify.com
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.”— André Gide, amazon.com
“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com
“Just telling a man ‘I want you’ can do all kinds of things for his ego.”— Adrienne Mansfield, mandecoder.com
“To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.”— Garth Stein, amazon.com
“People like me don't write books, they're written about.”— Joshua Safran, Chuck Bass, Ed Westwick, imdb.com