Ego Quotes - Page 7

• Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

  Hannah Arendt

  Acceptance, Self, Expression

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• You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Men, Broken

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Art, Flower, Fall

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• Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Self, Evolution, Stage

  "Stories and Biographies from Iqbal".

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• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Lying, Creativity, Creative

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• I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power - it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.

  Harvey Milk

  Phones, People, Giving

  Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (p. 277), 1982.

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• Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.

  Rajneesh

  Dancer, Musician, World

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• I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.

  Scott Hamilton

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• As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

  Martin Heidegger

  Subjectivity, Consciousness, Relate

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• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  Barbra Streisand

  Strength, Believe, Mean

  Playboy interview, 1977.

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• Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Saving, Way, Merit

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• With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

  Dorothee Solle

  Moving, Divinity, Sole

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• Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

  Paul Arden

  People, Great People

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• I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

  Gavin DeGraw

  Handle

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• To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

  Dexter Gordon

  Nice, Littles, Rewards

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• A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Trying, Naked, Veils

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

  George Eliot

  Doe, Belief, Sincerity

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.345, Penguin

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• I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

  Taylor Hackford

  Cameras, Take Control, Fronts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.

  Robert Genn

  People, Needs, Brushes

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• It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

  Robert Breault

  Hard, Flatterer

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• Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Style, Suffering, Together

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• Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.

  Adyashanti

  Giving, Mind, Perception

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• What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

  Martin Buber

  Given, Indispensable, Including

  Rivka Horwitz, Martin Buber (1988). “Buber's way to "I and thou": the development of Martin Buber's thought and his "Religion as presence" lectures”, Jewish Pubn Society

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• The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Simple, Facts, Excitement

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.267, UPNE

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