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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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• You can never be free
  as long as you have an ego to defend.

  Anthony de Mello

  Long

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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 man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.

  Ramesh S Balsekar

  Men, Mind, May

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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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• Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Teacher, Art, Class

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• There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.

  Robert Kazinsky

  Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Enlightenment, Tao

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• Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

  Terence McKenna

  Creating, Psychedelic, Boundaries

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• I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.

  Kanye West

  Children, Smart, Opportunity

  "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Kanye West". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2015.

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• Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Believe, Pride, Destiny

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• When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Kind, Sometimes, Beast

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• Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Real, Thinking

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• Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

  Terence McKenna

  Males, Population, Psychedelic

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• To test a man's ego, simply ask him a complicated question. A good person will never be afraid to admit they don't know the answer to something. And only when a man has fully dismantled his ego, can he begin to be truly good.

  Suzy Kassem

  Men, Answers, Tests

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• Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Events, Devotion

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• The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Everyday, Elimination, Found

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• Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war.

  Samael Aun Weor

  War, Hatred, Violence

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• Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

  George Steiner

  Player, Doe, Crumbling

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• Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your birth and is inescapable. There are choices, accidents, hints and wrong paths, and the ego you, or whatever you call yourself, is a factor in all this. But there is still this other factor that keeps calling. At some moment, people turn, in despair or when they are unable to go any longer on a certain route, and this inner voice says, "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you to turn to me for a long time."

  James Hillman

  Book, Voice, Long

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