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Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Quote by John Bradshaw about self-control

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Quote by George Seferis about action, proudness, end, egoism, things, man

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at...

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Quote by Dean Acheson about attention, public, man

I just didn't want to waste my time, I wanted to have fun and didn't want to work with people with big egos again, if they don't check them at the door.

Quote by Kim Basinger about work, time, people

And if you can't keep your ego under control, it's going...

And if you can't keep your ego under control, it's going to cost you a lot of money.

Quote by Al Alvarez about opinion, money

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that...

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

Quote by Al Alvarez about poker, things

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, ...

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

Quote by Michael Caine

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

Quote by Glenn Close about question, prestige, suffering, rightness, being

The motivation is probably less egocentric now in terms...

The motivation is probably less egocentric now in terms of my need to do it, but to work with great people.

Quote by Richard Gere about motivation, need, work, people

I can imagine the ego inviting power, respect, all those...

I can imagine the ego inviting power, respect, all those sorts of things. I'm not hugely ambitious in those directions.

Quote by Colin Firth about respect, power, things

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

Quote by Peter Fonda about actors, writers, knowledge, work

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric....

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about affair

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.

Quote by Whitney Houston about commerce, miracle, hell, people

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough...

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Quote by Mick Jagger about attention

If a person loves only one other person and is...

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love, people

An egotist is a person of low taste more interested in...

An egotist is a person of low taste more interested in himself than in me.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about egoism, people

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Quote by William Cowper about egoism, guilt, shame, glory

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about egoism, love

I am confident that this world will survive even to the...

I am confident that this world will survive even to the greatest egos.

Quote by Marius Torok about optimism, world

Disease, a suave alter ego, your chimeric and bitter double.

Disease, a suave alter ego, your chimeric and bitter double.

Quote by Iulian Boldea about malady, bitter, body

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