Ego Quotes - Page 21

• Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.

  Ken Blanchard

  Important, Asking, May

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2015

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• My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Enlightenment, Tao

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• Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

  Terence McKenna

  Creating, Psychedelic, Boundaries

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• The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

  Terence McKenna

  World, Feminine, Masculine

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• I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.

  Kanye West

  Children, Smart, Opportunity

  "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Kanye West". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2015.

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• Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Believe, Pride, Destiny

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• In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.' That is the crushing. ... It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Crush, Self, Nafs

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• You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

  Herb Kelleher

  Successful, Helping Others, People

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• When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Kind, Sometimes, Beast

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• Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Names, Magic

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• One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Real, Thinking

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• Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

  Terence McKenna

  Males, Population, Psychedelic

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• Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

  Max Lucado

  Important, Helping, Offers

  Max Lucado (2011). “Cure for the Common Life”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You're going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That's not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture.

  Tiger Woods

  Mistake, Pride, Keys

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• I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.

  Tom Ford

  Jobs, Home, Goal

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• To test a man's ego, simply ask him a complicated question. A good person will never be afraid to admit they don't know the answer to something. And only when a man has fully dismantled his ego, can he begin to be truly good.

  Suzy Kassem

  Men, Answers, Tests

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• Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Events, Devotion

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• Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Names, Soul, Stalking

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• The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Everyday, Elimination, Found

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• Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war.

  Samael Aun Weor

  War, Hatred, Violence

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• I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

  Andy Rooney

  Smart, Believe, Thinking

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• The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different, to perceive the "ego" of other men, even when it is not pronounced enough for them to be conscious of it themselves. But it is only he who feels that every other man is also an ego, a monad, an individual centre of the universe, with specific manner of feeling and thinking and a distinct past, he alone is in a position to avoid making use of his neighbours as means to an end.

  Otto Weininger

  Mean, Past, Men

  Otto Weininger (1907). “Sex & Character”

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• Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

  George Steiner

  Player, Doe, Crumbling

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• Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your birth and is inescapable. There are choices, accidents, hints and wrong paths, and the ego you, or whatever you call yourself, is a factor in all this. But there is still this other factor that keeps calling. At some moment, people turn, in despair or when they are unable to go any longer on a certain route, and this inner voice says, "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you to turn to me for a long time."

  James Hillman

  Book, Voice, Long

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