Ego Quotes - Page 23

• Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

  Willa Cather

  Half, Pulling Away, Human Life

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.18, Vintage

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• Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Deep Love, Soul, Way

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• I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it.

  David Bowie

  Character, People, Might

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• It's almost like it's my alter ego when I get on stage... I turn into this different person, seriously. Bipolar disorder. I'm tired of everybody touching me and things being plugged into my head.

  Britney Spears

  Tired, Touching, Bipolar

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• The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

  Warsan Shire

  Hurt, Love You, Doe

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• When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Giving, Trying

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• Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there; if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.

  Miles Davis

  Wife, Guy, Sometimes

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• The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.

  Tim Allen

  Kids, Busy, Basements

  “Tim Allen: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

  Dane Cook

  Losing Everything, Elements, Want

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• My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Fashion, Russia, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Two, Good Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

  Louis C. K.

  Years, Two, Suffering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to go to England, and I'll tell you why. I like to go to a country where I am considered the best-looking person. It's as simple as that. Hollywood, kind of a crushing ego blow - 'Hey Buddy Holly, you are so old, have you not perished in a plane crash?' But not in England, good God, not there. In England, God bless that dinky island, there it's, 'Good God, look at him. He has all his teeth and his ears are in proportion to his head.' I'm Brad bloody Pitt on that island.

  Greg Proops

  Crush, Country, Blow

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• Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

  Anthony Geary

  Want, Wheels, Stamps

  "Exclusive: Anthony Geary, Jane Elliot, Kin Shriner Dish the Golden Days of General Hospital". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. April 1, 2013.

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• I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

  Christopher Walken

  Numbers, Care, Matter

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• I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

  Richard Armitage

  Zero, Doe, Use

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• The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

  Laozi

  Running, Groups, Wells

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• Try not to be concerned with it. It's a spiritual thing. Don't look for the results, don't live in the payoff. Live in the moment which is a spiritual principle. Live in the moment and let the results take care of themselves. It's in the hands of God. The rest is all ego. And I have learned, over the years, it's got nothing to do with me. As my life is none of my business.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Spiritual, Hands, Years

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• Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward. I think the threat of an industry like this is that you can become sort of self-obsessed. There's so much praise being given to you - there's a real threat of exalting the ego.

  Kimbra

  Real, Heart, Thinking

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• Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.

  Charles Koch

  Hurt, Careers, Track

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• Think about the photo you want to make beforehand. Then do it, but also don't be blind to better options that present themselves at the location. Be flexible, and be patient. Leave ego at home. Get the photo before you yell at the asshole, not after.

  Peter Menzel

  Home, Thinking, Want

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• In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we take on hate rather than love in our hearts, we create all of this divisiveness, and we create all of the problems, the struggles, the difficulties, the diseases, the poverty.

  Wayne Dyer

  Hate, Struggle, Heart

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• It's a mistake to think that God has conflict with anything. He's everything. So the more close you are to God, how can you be in conflict with anybody? Conflict comes from ego, and from thinking, "I'm right and you're wrong." If I can reach the point where I understand that what is right for me may be different than what is right for you, that would be a good step. But most people don't reach that point, and so they fight about it.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Mistake, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness. We're all his dream, and our duty in life that God has assigned to us, that the universe has placed squarely in our laps, is to find out who we really are. "Gnothi seauton," as the Greeks used to say. "Know thyself." But to know thyself, if you trace it back, to the deeper and deeper levels, you discover that that self is not your body or your ego or your personality or your country or anything, that's just a sack of self-definitions that you carry around with you

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Dream, Country, Self

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.

  A. R. Rahman

  Heart, Two, Ifs

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