(379 quotes found)
“I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.”
Martin Zweig
“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.”
George Michael
“To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.”
Gary Oldman
“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.”
Lewis Black
“Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?”
Bill Maher
“No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego like an automobile”
William Rootes
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
Sigmund Freud
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“Ego is the man, the male image. Ego is the phallic symbol, the helmet, the gun. The man behind the gun, the mind behind the man behind the gun. My philosophy is that ego is the thinking mind. The mind you scheme with, make war with. They shoved all the love in the back, hid it away. Ego is like, "I'm going to war with my ego stick."”
Charles Manson
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
Douglas Adams
