Ego Quotes - Page 19

• The most important external environment is the government of India. You have to sell your ideas to the government. Selling the idea is the most important thing, and for that I'll meet anybody in the government. I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is an ego.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Government

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• Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Suffering, Ruthlessness, Underestimate

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• I was well aware of that when I heard they were remaking 'Total Recall.' My first reaction was: 'Ewww, really okay?' And the director said you should really look at it, the script is good. I had already done a remake. I had just finished 'Fright Night.' When I heard about that being remade, I had a whole ego thing... remake?. 'That is so uncool! I loved the original, I can't possibly do that.

  Colin Farrell

  Night, Directors, Looks

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.

  Pam Brown

  Beautiful, Stars, Memories

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• The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.

  Andrew Cohen

  Differences, Self, Creative

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• If you try to figure out how you will get what you want you will limit yourself to what your ego or conditioned mind can do. The key to creating what you want is to turn your desire or your goal over to your subconscious which is connected to the Universal Mind or Universal Subconscious and let it bring the goal to you and you to your goal.

  Robert Anthony

  Creating, Keys, Goal

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• If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.

  Henry Miller

  Christian, Crazy, War

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• The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Successful, Reality

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.

  Henry Miller

  Change, Self, Collaboration

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.337, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?

  David Bohm

  Learning, Knows

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• It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

  Don Marquis

  Believe, Would Be, World

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• The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

  Alan Ball

  Kind, Bigs, Tamed

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. September 7, 2008.

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• If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Throat, Augusta

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• For me, the only ego that needs serving in putting together a film is the story's, the ego of the story and it's the piece itself that you want to bring out the voice of the piece. You're really serving that and that's the thing that you have a basic understanding of.

  Julia Ormond

  Voice, Understanding, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility.

  Sebastian Copeland

  Humility, Goal, Desire

  Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never get to do in real life - and it appeals to my ego as an actor to play the Queen of Everything. I admit it.

  Virginia Madsen

  Queens, Real, Character

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". movieweb.com. January 07, 2009.

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• When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could do something exciting there.

  I. M. Pei

  Opportunity, Museums, Wings

  Source: archtalks.com

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• One of the things that is always difficult about a collaboration is that you don't necessarily find the same thing funny. And so the challenge becomes, how do you tell the other person that you don't think something's funny? The best collaborations tend to be when you are willing to be told that. But there's also ego involved, and so there's a lot of frustration in knowing that you're writing something, and the other person, on some level, needs to think that it's funny.

  Michael Showalter

  Writing, Thinking, Frustration

  "Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter have issues". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.

  Laura Benanti

  Teenager, Thinking, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.

  Karen Armstrong

  Spring, Buddhism, Talking

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome.

  Jackie Warner

  People, Television, Nightmare

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

  Robert Barron

  Letting Go, Fun, Drama

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• You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

  Peter Kreeft

  Evil, Twins, Always With You

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• The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

  Ramakrishna

  Morning, Thinking, Roots

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• I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

  Shepard Fairey

  Pride, Self, Design

  Source: www.complex.com

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