Ego Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more.  It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison.  In fact it is us.  Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Persistence, Alive

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• [Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.

  Richard Tarnas

  Men, Self, Views

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• The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

  Tom Clancy

  Conceited, Mind, Fables

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Without Remorse”, p.254, Penguin

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• Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Sleep, Servant Leadership, Capability

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.20, Paulist Press

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• Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Numbers, Feelings, Perception

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

  Sigmund Freud

  Cutting, Resistance, Communicate

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Men, Differences

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

  Sigmund Freud

  Wish, Analogies, Faces

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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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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• There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Doubt, Principles, Would Be

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.14, 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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• Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis.

  Simon Critchley

  Thinking, Mirrors, Perspective

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• The thing about humour is that the super-ego is also at play, so what interested me, particularly in the last chapter which is key to the book -and no one seems to have picked this up in writings on Freud - is that, in the later Freud, the essence of humour is the ability to look at myself and find myself ridiculous. That makes me laugh.

  Simon Critchley

  Book, Writing, Keys

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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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• I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

  Noomi Rapace

  Ideas, Add, Sometimes

  Source: www.esquire.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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• Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

  Cakes da killa

  Answers, Want, Ask Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.

  Jack White

  Hurt, Home, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.

  Phil Ramone

  Wise, Important, Information

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