There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.
I fed my ego, but not my soul.
My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.
When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.
I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Any comparison to a WWE legend or someone I've looked up to is really cool, but make no mistake about it, my ego is too big to want to be a really good replica of someone else!
Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.
Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That's why drag is such a hard sell to a network - or anyone, really - because it's up against the ego.
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.
My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.
I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
GOP leaders need to let go of their ego factions and come together with one primary goal in mind: keeping 'Billary' from getting back into the Oval Office.
I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!
I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.
When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.
But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
Because Scientologists view children as spiritual beings, you're not treated as a kid, so you're given a lot of responsibility. Your ego becomes extremely inflated.
My ego thinks I would like to be considered for more heavyweight roles, but the price you pay for that is they are always the same kind of roles.
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.
There's ego in all of us rugby players.
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.