Quotes with ego-serving

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  • Ann Druyan A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Bill Clinton A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
    Source: U.S. News & World Report, Volume 136, Issues 20-23, 2004
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bill Shuster America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Alec Guinness 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.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Sigmund Freud 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
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Brad Grey Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.
    Brad Grey
     
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  • Bono As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Brit Morin Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Carol Shea-Porter During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.
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  • Gerald R. Ford Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
    Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • W. H. Auden Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Sigmund Freud 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.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Arlo Guthrie Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
    Arlo Guthrie
    American folk singer-songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Robert H. Schuller Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego....
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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