“You, and your pride and your ego! You just had to be the man! If you’d known your place, we’d all be fine right now!”— Jonathan Banks, JMike Ehrmantraut, amazon.com
“There’s a point where the vanity burns away and you’ve had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that’s been granted t…”— Barack Obama, vanityfair.com
“Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“Yeah, I get it. You're one of the good guys. But guess what. We all think we're good guys.”— Alex Vause, twitter.com
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”— Bill Bullard, facebook.com
“When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.”— Aaron McGruder, amazon.com
“Stroking the ego isn’t a one-way transaction for you. You want to get praise and attention as much as you want to give it. You’ve got a whole bag of flirting moves — everything from very focused eye contact, smiling, and charisma. You’ve got sexy down to a science.”— Christine Schoenwald, thoughtcatalog.com
“He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.”— Anthony Powell, amazon.com
“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and…”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“It’s a temptation that exists for everyone— for talk and hype to replace action.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.”— Ryan Holiday