Ego Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• 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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• Solitude is unquenched ego.

  Kedar Joshi

  Solitude

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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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• 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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• You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

  Norman Mailer

  Gambling

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• Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn't something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you consciously accept the moment you are in, when you don't fight the present reality with thoughts of how you'd like it to be otherwise, or what you're afraid the next moment might bring, when you don't resist with justification or regret or blame of self or other.

  Jan Frazier

  Regret, Fighting, Reality

  Jan Frazier (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.192, Weiser Books

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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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• Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Mistake, Creative, Needs

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'd rather be on this side of the camera. I feel more comfortable. I'd rather keep myself centered and keep my ego as tepid as possible. Because you can get a big head walking around here.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Cameras, Sides, Self Centered

  Source: collider.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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• Show me success without ego!

  Ivana Trump

  Show Me, Shows

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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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• 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 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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• ...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Sleep, Hands, Desire

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

  David D. Burns

  Mean, Humility, Thinking

  "Answers to Questions from a Psychology Today Blogger". feelinggood.com. October 24, 2013.

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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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• Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.

  Mark Lawson

  Photography, Sex, Stars

  "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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• That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Lying, Self, Consciousness

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day listening to your every word and whatever you say goes, and that can be slightly corrupting. And actually, to be a good director, you have to take ego out of it, because hopefully what you've done is surrounded yourself with brilliant people. Let them be brilliant and you just shepherd that and marshal that and hopefully guide it however you can, but definitely not to the extent that you're overbearing.

  Dan Mazer

  People, Listening, Shepherds

  Source: collider.com

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