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«To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.»
Author: Gary Oldman | Keywords: ego, in the first place
«The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.»
«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.»
Author: Northrop Frye | Keywords: affords, ego, nonsense
«We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.»
«There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.»
«Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego»
«The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.»
«The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.»
«The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.»
«The ego is not master in its own house.»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | Keywords: ego

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