Ego Quotes - Page 28

• I have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater source of appreciation and information than you would have if you were just going on your own ego system.

  Billy Corgan

  Appreciation, Giving, Musical

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to others. In many ancient languages, the word for enemy means "one who falls out of rhythm; one who is not working in harmony with the larger group."

  Sharon Gannon

  Selfish, Fall, Mean

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Greed, Humanity

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically.

  Tom Robbins

  Technology, Wrinkles, Rose

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.

  Alex Ebert

  Pain, Want, Sometimes

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros | Alex Ebert Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

  Gotye

  Letting Go, Feelings, Musical

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• For me, it's the slow release of my ego and certain belief systems that I identify with that give me comfort and an identity, and it's scary to let go of that.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Letting Go, Giving, Scary

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel especially vulnerable when I know I've let the reactive ego take control of my actions and it may have had hurtful implications with someone I love. I feel vulnerable when I don't listen to my conscience.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Hurtful, May, Action

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

  Alanis Morissette

  Spiritual, Dog, Real

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013..

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• Anytime I feel my feathers ruffle off of someone else's success, I have to check myself. It's normally fear based or ego related and it's my daily work to let it go and focus on me, because that's the only person I can control and make grow.

  Kathryn Budig

  Focus, Let It Go, Ruffles

  ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously.

  Ice T

  Believe, Firsts, Albums

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think that my "Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes.

  Ice Cube

  Fun, Attitude, Thinking

  Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. April 13, 2016.

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• The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle no one can ever live by.

  Robert Thurman

  Love You, Thinking, Psychology

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think sometimes your worst enemy is inside your head. All your insecurities, your ego, your fears, your expectations.

  Luis Gerardo Mendez

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Expectations

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• Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

  Kit Williamson

  Thinking, Knowing, Bravery

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• We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  People, Needs, Empowered

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• I think, honestly, that ego makes you most vulnerable. When you are in humility you are much more comfortable, open and okay with BEING vulnerable, whereas the ego is the protecter, and even though you think you're protecting, I think you are more vulnerable if you're in ego.

  Mike Ness

  Humility, Thinking, Vulnerable

  "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego.

  Bill Maher

  Rap, West, Messages

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• When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.

  Roger Ailes

  Hurt, Fighting, Guy

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Past, Decision

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are two things you need to ask for, to open up that channel, so you get the light. One is humility, because our ego is always going to block that guidance, and so you ask for humility.And the second thing you're going to ask for is courage, because what you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Block, Humility, Thinking

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• The ego's blocking the light from coming.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Block, Light

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• There are a few of the authors that I think have made a great big impact on my life. The way I used to do things when I was younger was more about being outrageous, and there was a lot of ego involved in that.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Impact, Way

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Joy, Who We Are

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• When we start talking about gurus, first of all we're starting to talk about something that can't be talked about, in the sense that you can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego. The true guru is someone who's transcended all that. And we don't know anything about that.

  Krishna Das

  Talking, Long, Firsts

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, June 1, 2016.

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