Carlos Castaneda Quotes

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

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

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Vanity is not high on my list of priorities.

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

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

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.