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Where id was, there ego shall be.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

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

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

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

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.

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

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

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.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

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

I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.

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

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.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.