Ego Quotes - Page 26

• Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

  Nikki Sixx

  Enemy

  "Q&A with Nikki Sixx on 'This Is Gonna Hurt'". Interview with Justin Tedaldi, www.axs.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

  Helene Deutsch

  Maturity, Emotional, Ties

  Helene Deutsch (1958). “The Psychology of Women”

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• [President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

  Dean Acheson

  Jobs, Leader, President

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• One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Oxford, West

  "The Best Kanye-Isms From Yeezy's Oxford Speech" by Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Ego & Hype have no place in business.

  Keshia Chante

  Hype

  Elle Magazine Canada, 2008.

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• For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

  K Callan

  Success, Vision, Rooms

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• Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Love Life, Mind

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• When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Jobs, Handbags

  Interview with Ann McFerran, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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• The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Sanity, Reason

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.

  Jon Anderson

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Ideas

  "The idea is to unravel the onion". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2003.

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• What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

  Lauren Myracle

  Treating Others, Want, Way

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  Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

  Clint Eastwood

  Art, Listening, Checks

  "Clint Eastwood Describes His Near-Death Experience, Says 'American Sniper' Is Anti-War (Exclusive)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Rap, Careers, Music Is

  "Earl Sweatshirt Interviews Mike Tyson, Discusses Odd Future, The Notebook, Fighting, More". Interview with Mike Tyson, pitchfork.com. December 17, 2014.

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• People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hurt, Children, People

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• Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

  Albert Einstein

  Greater, Related

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• To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

  Alan Cohen

  Thinking, Persons, Knows

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• When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.

  Till Lindemann

  Stupid, Clothes, East Germany

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• Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

  James Altucher

  Honesty, People, Helping

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• I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt...a few girls have passed out, that's all.

  Andy Gibb

  Girl, Hurt, Nice

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

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• There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Player, Ukulele

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• The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of order ... all great art ... harmonises consciousness with the ego-transcending Self.

  Christopher Booker

  Art, Self, Order

  Christopher Booker (2004). “The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories”, p.552, A&C Black

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• Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements gang up behind or beneath the ego's awareness and immerse it in a waking dream of something Other, an alien world-order similar to ancient irrationalist cultures (in transition from primitivism to civilized mythos-culture).

  Kenny Smith

  Dream, Writing, Order

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• The ego knows itself by comparison.

  Richard Rohr

  Knows, Comparison

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• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  Dada Vaswani

  Religious, Spring, Humility

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• Love means to reach for the sky
  and with every breath to tear a
  hundred veils. Love means to step
  away from the ego, to open the eyes
  of inner vision and not to take this
  world so seriously

  Rumi

  Mean, Eye, Sky

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