Ego Quotes - Page 28

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

  David Bohm

  Learning, Knows

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• I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

  Kenneth Clark

  Hurt, Kindness, Believe

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.

  Matthew Kelly

  Mother, Self, Challenges

  Matthew Kelly (2002). “Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose”, p.63, BookBaby

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• The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.

  Joe Vitale

  Demand, Bigger, Universe

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• The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.

  James Redfield

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Progress

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• Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

  Robert Altman

  Fall, Thinking, Traps

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• Every need got an ego to feed.

  Bob Marley

  Needs

  Song: Pimper's Paradise, Album: Uprising, 1980

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• I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

  Kate Atkinson

  Believe, Mean, Buddhism

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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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• Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

  David Bohm

  Individuality, Centeredness

  David Bohm's dialogue with Renee Weber, first published in the journal ReVision (1983), later published in Renee Weber "Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity (p. 30), 1986.

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• Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

  Dan Brown

  Politics, Underestimate, Politician

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.712, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.

  Afia Nathaniel

  Males, Fantasy, Film

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.

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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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• I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

  Steve Carell

  Thinking, People, Perception

  "Steve Carell Talks About Dan in Real Life". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. October 22, 2007.

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• The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Careers, Would Be

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• As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

  Richard Linklater

  Odds, Government, Opinion

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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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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• You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you're letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Thinking, Needs, Want

  "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.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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• The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

  Anne Bancroft

  Reality, Training, Consciousness

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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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• I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in my best interest all the time. Even when climbing I can't escape the clutches of my ego. The reason why I started climbing was because I could be free from myself.

  Chris Sharma

  Powerful, Real, Climbing

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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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