Quotes by Ego There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love Nizar Qabbani egowishlove-you I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it. Nolan Bushnell egomindlooks I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that. Noomi Rapace egoaddideas An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent. Norma Shearer actressesegoacting The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it. Norman Cousins egoneeds I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead. Norm MacDonald work-ethicegopeople The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside. Norman O. Brown egoselfreality Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. Norman Mailer writers-blockegoblock I hate everything which is not in myself. Norman Mailer egohateliterature The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. Northrop Frye egotemptationbeauty You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos. Norman Mailer gamblingego Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy. Nora Roberts justinheavyego Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. two-sidesapologyego My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer. Oliver Stone egohonorchristian 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 neurosisegopersonality Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole. Otto Scharmer our-societyegomoving Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically kind of have to just set everything else aside - it's like suddenly getting a temp job that requires you to work 16-hour days. Also just aesthetically, you have to completely leave all of your ego out of it. Owen Pallett egodifferentwriting Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage. Orson Scott Card difficultegoseems If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions. Paolo Soleri egoimportantdone We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside. Pankaj Mishra egodesiretrying«3738394041424344454647»
