Ego Quotes - Page 6

• A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Aggravation, Understanding

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• When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say, "I have done this." You would like everybody to know that you have done this and you have done that. This ego is the barrier for the supreme understanding. Drop the doer and let things happen. That's what Tilopa means by being loose and natural.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Attachment, Understanding

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• It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.

  Paul Bowles

  Thinking, People, Answers

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• A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

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  Ram Dass

  Oneness, Evolution, Consciousness

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• Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

  Diogenes

  Different, Boast, Armour

  "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

  Milton H. Erickson

  Conscious, Unconscious

  Milton H. Erickson (1980). “The Nature of Hypnosis and Suggestion”, Halsted Press

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• I've been told I have the biggest ego in the world and that it manifests itself when you come to me and say, 'I don't like this' or 'I want a change'... and that I relish that because my ego's so big I think I can solve whatever you throw at me and make it even better. I enjoy the interaction and the challenge.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Challenges, World

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• You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

  Gary Renard

  Inspirational, Forgiving, Tables

  Gary Renard (2004). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.171, Hay House, Inc

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• I own and operate a ferocious ego.

  Bill Moyers

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• When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.

  Meher Baba

  Forget Everything, Too Much, Infinite

  Meher Baba (1972). “The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba”

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• The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.

  Romare Bearden

  Song, Artist, Opposites

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• I hate everything which is not in myself.

  Norman Mailer

  Hate, Literature, I Hate

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.164, Henry Holt and Company

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• If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, War, Self

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.44, New World Library

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• Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the chief callfor a God on modern men's part is for a being who will inwardly recognize them and judge them sympathetically. Matter disappoints this craving of our ego, so God remains for most men the truer hypothesis, and indeed remains so for definite pragmatic reasons.

  William James

  Men, Ideas, Judging

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.72, 谷月社

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• Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.

  David Brooks

  Needs, Trump, Feds

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It’s simply good common sense. After all, you’re the only person who’s with you 24/7, until you draw your last breath.

  Lauren Mackler

  Believe, Keys, People

  "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.

  Brad Bird

  Assistants, Bigs

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• Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

  Igor Babailov

  People, Portraits, Creation

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• Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.

  Jon Pareles

  Artist, Imagination, Needs

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• All I am is what I create. It's my blessing to share with the world.

  Michael Bell

  Blessing, World, Share

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

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• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

  W. H. Auden

  Character, Self, Two

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Hic et Ille"), (p. 96), 1962.

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• An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

  Norma Shearer

  Acting, Actresses, Talent

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• Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

  Bill Maher

  Ego Problem, Worship You, Religion

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• The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

  Dean Acheson

  Men, Mirrors, Ego Problem

  "History as Literature".

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• After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Cutting, Years, Differences

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

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