Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

I've had times when I've done what seems like a thousand interviews to promote a film that I'm in. I start to think that I'm the best thing that ever happened to the world, talkin' about myself for cryin' out loud. Then I come home, and my wife needs me to help with dinner and empty the garbage, and the kids need help with their homework.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

I have some realistic humility which comes from my first career as a writer. I wrote for other people for ten years. I saw some incredible egos not based on any reality. They were great when they were on top and awful when they weren't. I learned a lot about how to treat people.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.

I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

I look at the big picture and try not to create with ego.

If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in the wrong place.