Ego Quotes - Page 25

• If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Strong, Taken, Thinking

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• Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from their own ego to their essence, and then to connect to do whatever work in the world they are called to do, that's an evolutionary circle.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Spiritual, Heart, Essence

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mind, World

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Goal, Vision, Degrees

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.

  Rod Serling

  Self, Feelings, Important

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I just know that he's Robbie Williams - he's massive, that's all I know! He nailed it. Working in the studio with him was cool. I got there at about six in the afternoon and then stayed until six in the morning. We only worked for like two hours, the rest of the time we were just chilling out the back. The way Robbie handles everything... he's a star, but there were never any pretensions, no ego. He put effort in.

  Dizzee Rascal

  Morning, Stars, Two

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever." This is mostly the action film dudes, like, "Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!"

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Thinking, Three, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

  Sheila Johnson

  Successful, Males, Problem

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

  Zack Snyder

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.

  Zack Snyder

  Moving, Museums, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some ego is involved because I guess one wants to be perceived as a good clown and one puts one's name on the art; but it's so hard to do anything in life, trapped as we are in our bodies, that is purely selfless for others... somehow the self is always involved.

  Jonathan Ames

  Art, Self, Names

  "The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames". Interview with Joshua Furst, therumpus.net. July 29, 2009.

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• One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

  Jonathan Ames

  Records, Littles, Lasts

  "The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames". Interview with Joshua Furst, therumpus.net. July 29, 2009.

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• I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

  David Bowie

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

  M. Ward

  Song, Inspiration, Giving

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that won't accept students who are writing genre fiction - what an institutional ego!

  Tod Goldberg

  Teaching, Writing, Finding Yourself

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

  Annie E. Clark

  Emotional, Weakness, Use

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

  Emily Susan Rapp

  Thinking, People, Cost

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Order, Mind, Complaining

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.

  Don Cheadle

  Winning, Important, Directors

  "We talked to Don Cheadle about his new Miles Davis movie, biopics, and why he's not boycotting the Oscars". Interview with Interview with, uk.businessinsider.com. January 25, 2016.

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• The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So, my first instinct was a little bit of an ego tap, but the second I processed it, I was fine. The only weird thing will be maybe not having as many people live tweeting because they're actually out doing something more interesting on Friday night. I'm not going to sit at home, reading Twitter on Friday night.

  Caroline Dries

  Friday, Reading, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm totally a narcissist, so I was doing all this performance and having lots of weird ego time, and learning to set aside my love for the ego and find a deeper love for myself and through that seeing myself as one with all beings. And through loving myself, loving all people in the world, that was my cure for narcissism, the only cure.

  Larkin Grimm

  People, World, Narcissism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, love is a pure, unconditional, nonjudgmental feeling that I feel towards some people and some parts of nature. Most of us love, but the purest love is the one where we take ego out of the equation, and that is the hard part of love, keeping ego aside.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Love Is, People, Feelings

  "Patricia Velasquez - Supermodel, Actor and Author". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, nicheandnook.com. October 3, 2015.

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• Aquamen is unique in the sense that he does it without ego. He doesn't always have to be right. He's made a lot of mistakes, and he really takes those to heart.

  Geoff Johns

  Mistake, Heart, Unique

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature. I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego. And I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

  Brad Willis

  Mother, Thinking, Grace

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.

  Aleks Paunovic

  Want, Vulnerable, Accepting

  "Watchtower Actor Aleks Paunovic: Getting out of his own way, and the importance of trying". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 21, 2015.

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