Ego Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Simplicity, Meditation

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more.  It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison.  In fact it is us.  Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Persistence, Alive

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• The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

  Tom Clancy

  Conceited, Mind, Fables

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Without Remorse”, p.254, Penguin

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• Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Sleep, Servant Leadership, Capability

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.20, Paulist Press

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• When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Persons, Substitution

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Long, Overcoming

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Winners surround themselves with other winners. A winner knows he's a winner. He doesn't need second-raters and yes-men around to feed his ego. He knows he'll win more, and go further, with associates who not only can keep up with him but who also are capable of teaching him something.

  Harvey Mackay

  Teaching, Winning, Men

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• Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis.

  Simon Critchley

  Thinking, Mirrors, Perspective

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• The thing about humour is that the super-ego is also at play, so what interested me, particularly in the last chapter which is key to the book -and no one seems to have picked this up in writings on Freud - is that, in the later Freud, the essence of humour is the ability to look at myself and find myself ridiculous. That makes me laugh.

  Simon Critchley

  Book, Writing, Keys

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• I would always drink purple drink - syrup. I would just be in a room, screwing and chopping up music. It was like an alter ego - I would turn into another person when I was on a substance. My music would get darker and weirder, and it inspired a lot of people. But I've changed my life and stopped smoking. I like to turn up and have fun when I get the chance, but I don't overdo it now.

  SpaceGhostPurrp

  Fun, Purple, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

  Noomi Rapace

  Ideas, Add, Sometimes

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

  Cakes da killa

  Answers, Want, Ask Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.

  Jack White

  Hurt, Home, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

  Russell Kirk

  Christian, Men, Denial

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• A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Attitude, Wind, Church

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• Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jesus, Deeds, Spirit

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• Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

  Rod Steiger

  Acting, Would Be, Actors

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• Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

  Luther Allison

  Play, People, Music Love

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• The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.

  Reginald Ray

  Stars, Reality, Fire

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• The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

  Helen M. Luke

  Agony, Misery, Minutes

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• In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Views, Practice, Everyday

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
  Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Team, Player, Messi

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• Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

  Donald Trump

  Real, Healthy, Opinion

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Dec 09, 2013

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