Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

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

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

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.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

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.

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.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

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.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

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

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Y'know, smile, dance, get crazy... we sure do while we're making it, because music is our leeezshure; it's my fun.

I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.

Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

You are my one, my only, my everything, my shining star, my reason for living, I love you so much thank you for loving me. Together forever.

You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up.

Social media is so influential now.

All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.

J.J. Abrams is an all-time hero of mine, really lovely to be working with him.

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.