#ego

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#america #both #category #chronic #class

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

I like the moment when I break a man's ego. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#ego #i #like #man #moment

I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#films #fond #girl #gregory #i

The ego is not master in its own house. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#house #master #own

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#another #decide #does #ego #freedom

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#beauty #because #dangerous #ego #goodness

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#baby #big #egotistical #i #i can

I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere. ↗

— Kenny G

#ego #even #i #like #listen

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal. ↗

— Kenny G

#big deal #category #deal #figure #fits