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  • Egos turn me off, big time. -- Selena Gomez
  • Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos. -- Maynard James Keenan
  • The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • Peace and happiness are powerful weapons against the Egos. -- Belsebuub
  • Egos clash. That's the nature of egos.Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits. -- Hugh Prather
  • Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons. -- Martin Buber
  • The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them. -- Ram Dass
  • Souls love. That's what souls do. Egos don't, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you'll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. -- Ram Dass
  • The people who want to be recognized as the greatest traders are probably not the greatest traders. Egos get in the way of the process. In my opinion, you never want to be the largest player in the pit. -- Blair Hull
  • Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable. -- Mike Krzyzewski
  • I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos. -- Laura Prepon
  • Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos. -- Mick Jagger
  • And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure. -- Heston Blumenthal
  • The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash. -- Kendrick Lamar
  • Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos. -- Donald Rumsfeld
  • Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are. -- Dick Cavett
  • The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile. -- Alan Watts
  • The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it. -- James McGreevey
  • My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood. -- Romola Garai
  • Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders. -- Brad Stone
  • In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts. -- Nigel Lythgoe
  • Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos. -- Jack Canfield
  • Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church. -- Jesse Jackson
  • We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media. -- Afrika Bambaataa
  • I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough! -- Kajol
  • Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There's a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience. -- Michael Franti
  • Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction. -- J. G. Ballard
  • In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself. -- Michael Haneke
  • Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it. -- Karisma Kapoor
  • The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well. -- Danny Boyle
  • Gentlemen, start your egos. -- Billy Crystal
  • Big egos have little ears. -- Robert H. Schuller
  • Get your egos off the battlefield. -- Charlie Sheen
  • You know men. We have delicate egos. -- Cassandra Clare
  • Comedy writers have the most fragile egos. -- Mindy Kaling
  • Fragile egos are put on the line every day. -- Mary Lou Retton
  • The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos. -- Laozi
  • cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers ... -- M. F. K. Fisher
  • You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos. -- Norman Mailer
  • Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. -- Diane Black
  • In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs -- Charlie Chaplin
  • Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great. -- Paul Arden
  • I'm not sure the ring is big enough to hold both these egos! -- Jim Ross
  • Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help. -- Max Lucado
  • I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome. -- Jackie Warner
  • People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos. -- Cass McCombs
  • The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand. -- Joe Vitale
  • When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens. -- Tommy Ramone
  • I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do. -- Eric Roberts
  • I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion. -- Michael Keaton
  • There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth. -- Aminatta Forna
  • Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making. -- Scott Stapp
  • Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos. -- J. D. Salinger
  • Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos. -- Lou Reed
  • I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos. -- Susan Strasberg
  • Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos. -- Ram Dass
  • When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends. -- Willard Scott
  • That's when she'd learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily. -- Jana Oliver
  • Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos. -- Shannon L. Alder
  • There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed. -- Ted Simmons
  • Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft -- Robin Sharma
  • A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos. -- Edward de Bono
  • I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious... -- Bill Hicks
  • Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves. -- Andrew Carnegie
  • The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music. -- Big Boi
  • When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos. -- Tony Yayo
  • Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are. -- William Inge
  • Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos. -- Marianne Williamson
  • When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving. -- Craig Groeschel
  • Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone. -- Rajneesh
  • Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego. -- Edgar Mitchell
  • I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos. -- Kenneth Clark
  • Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them. -- Alan Cohen
  • There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem. -- Sheila Johnson
  • As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves. -- Ethan Suplee
  • One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference. -- Charles Atlas
  • Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos. -- Assegid Habtewold
  • There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that. -- Robert Kazinsky
  • I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it. -- Tony Fernandes
  • You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair. -- Terence McKenna
  • I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists. -- Nicola Formichetti
  • The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds. -- Robert Hughes
  • We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run. -- Susan Cain
  • Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. -- Timothy Noah
  • We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
  • The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it. -- F. Lee Bailey
  • Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again. -- Caprice Bourret
  • It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos. -- Ram Dass
  • Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth. -- Gautama Buddha
  • A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track. -- Carly Fiorina
  • Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we'. -- Frank Lampl
  • A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. -- Oscar Isaac
  • We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else! -- Ken Keyes Jr.
  • I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture. -- John Oates
  • In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too. -- Andie MacDowell
  • All my battles were with male egos. I'm just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision. -- Joni Mitchell
  • God must have put men on the Earth with a surplus of social advantages because it was their only hope of surviving their incapacitating egos." -- Vivian Arend
  • American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos. -- Eric G. Wilson
  • You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively. -- Cate Blanchett
  • Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos. -- Ellie Goulding
  • It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  • One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists. -- Rufus Wainwright
  • But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. -- Haruki Murakami
  • The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are. -- Michelle Rodriguez
  • The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are -- Michelle Rodriguez
  • People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that. -- Cass McCombs
  • A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time. -- Tony Hale
  • Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos. -- Patrick Lencioni
  • People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries. -- Andrew Samuels
  • Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful. -- Daryl Hall
  • I think that my "Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes. -- Ice Cube
  • In the music industry, there's often a lot of egos and people aren't always very supportive, but we cheer each other on and we push each other to be better. -- Camila Cabello
  • The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives. -- Wayne Dyer
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