#ego

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#ascetic #deceives #deplorable #egotism #giving

Mastery passes often for egotism. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#mastery #often #passes

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#find #impose #must #organizing #reality

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#decide #egotistical #mayor #people #people say

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#ego #good #little #nice #psyche

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category. ↗

— Al Gore

#know #lose #old #saying #some

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category. ↗

— Eva Green

#character #complex #complex character #dark #find

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. ↗

— Graham Greene

#egotism #either #else #evil #happy

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#egotism #enlarged #fellow #fellow men #his

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#bodies #body #categorically #children #emotion