Ego-Driven Quotes

I don't like to do something just to prove I can do it.

The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

Most of us are totally, completely misaligned. God-consciousness is up there, while most of us live down here at ego-consciousness. But what's up there can't recognize what's down here. If you were a frog, and you were trying to see what this room is like, what would you see? Just try and picture it.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

[Doctor Strange] is still quite cocky by the end of the film. No, I'd say the major curve for him is that he learns that it's not all about him, that there's a greater good. But what he thinks he was doing as a neurosurgeon, that was good because it benefitted people's health was really just a furtherment of his attempts to control death and control his own fate and other people's, but that's still driven by the ego.

I don't go in there thinking about my family, friends, girlfriend, or my daughter. I want to prove to my coach that I'm the best. I don't care about anyone else.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

That's what it's all about for Trump. It's always about winning - winning for Trump, by making him look good in each day's reality-television production. It's never been about the country.

I had a natural aptitude for wanting to be the centre of attention and a definite skill for annoying people.

I've always been really turned off by a show where you're kind of just rooting for someone regardless of the stupid things that they do, or regardless of how their ego is clearly driving what they're doing.

My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

We always knew that whatever party Nigel Farage led - first UKIP and then the Brexit party - was basically a vehicle for his own political self-glorification and now he's proved it.

Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.