Ego Quotes - Page 32

• You can't fight human nature. Ego is going to get the best of everyone. You're going to think you can trust someone when you can't. People who come in the Big Brother house have a strong sense of self and often it gets handed to them when they get evicted.

  Julie Chen

  Strong, Brother, Fighting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• God is the causal power of consciousness as the ground of all being. So we can say that God is the causal power exerted in the creative experiences that we have. However, that causal power is usually very limited; we've become conditioned and that conditioning comes from what we call ego.

  Ricky Ray

  Creative, Consciousness

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• Being flexible is incredibly important. You can change your mind. I understand not wanting to flit around, jumping at something little, but you also need to ask yourself if the reasons you're in an investment are still the reasons you should be. It's hard for your ego and it's hard to call clients, but you have to do it.

  John Manley

  Mind, Important, Investment

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• An angel is a nonphysical being who has no ego - so we know angels are not human. An angel is a pure essence of the Creator's desire to connect with human beings.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Desire

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We have a mind, but we are the consciousness within the body and mind. I'm in my body but I am the eternal soul full of knowledge and bliss, unborn and undying. And the natural quality of the soul, uncovered from the ego and all our misconceptions, is unconditional love for the all-beautiful Lord.

  Radhanath Swami

  Unconditional Love, Soul, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We can use wealth, intelligence, education or health in harmony with our compassionate spiritual nature, or we can use them according to the selfish concerns of our particular egos. We have choices as human beings. We can be saints or we can be terrorists. We can be peaceful or we can be miserable. When we see everything in the world as God's sacred property, then we're seeing the spiritual potential, the spiritual substance, everywhere.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Selfish, Choices

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's 100% important to have a dialog with yourself going all the time. That's an ego talking to you, beckoning you to do more, but it's not the voice that you need to have in order to solidify the trust relationship. You have to be really transparent with yourself and say, "What can I do now?" What can I really do and how do I bring that into the world. In other words, those self-talk, we have to constantly be auditing, is our voice inside our best friend? If it's not, you have to make it your best friend.

  Judith E. Glaser

  Important, World, Your Best Friend

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I always love it when a small paper wins. When I was growing up in the Bronx, the editor of the Riverdale Press - a neighborhood rag - kept submitting his columns for a Pulitzer. We laughed and laughed at his ego. He finally won.

  Gene Weingarten

  Growing Up, Winning, Neighborhood

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Artists are all giving so much of ourselves to the work and the people and the press and the media and Twitter and all that now. For me, being able to create from a genuine place is really difficult lately because there's so much going on all the time, but when all that stuff gets quiet, you can explore your ideas without any ego or mental chatter.

  Flying Lotus

  Artist, People, Giving

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.

  Sally Lloyd-Jones

  Book, Thinking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• A lot of singers don't really know who they are. They have this massive insecurity and this massive ego and they are sort of pulled between both. I mean, why do you want a lot of people to look at you all the time and listen to you? There is something going on there, there is sort of need to express and attention. It's not just ego, it's some sort of complex thing and sometimes you create characters to say something you want to say and then you just throw yourself into that.

  Gavin Friday

  Character, Mean, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• William H. Macy has said, and I don't think I can quote him verbatim, but he's said many times before to not buy into the hype, the Hollywood appeal. To find yourself as a person, as a family man, to find your own happiness, and not to allow your ego to get in the way of your work.

  Cameron Monaghan

  Men, Thinking, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know if it's possible to affect my ego any more. There's no room left. For me, I think I make music like the way I think it should be made, like what rock should sound like. It has nothing to do with the current marketplace. And so from that state of mind, it's gonna sound different from anything else out there. And when something sounds different, I think that can be inspiring to other musicians.

  David Johansen

  Thinking, Mind, Musician

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• J.J. Abrams is a director with no ego. He is a director who has a very consistent attitude when he's at work. He's funny, he's brilliant, he's a combination of all these really great things. J.J. is the kind of person who sees the bigger picture before anybody else does. It sounds simple but not all directors do that.

  Maggie Q

  Attitude, Simple, Brilliant

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Trust is perhaps the most critical single building block underlying effectiveness. Without trust leaders do not have followers. Without trust, leaders are impotent despite great rhetoric or splendid ideas. Trust rests on the belief among followers that the leader is transparent: What you see is what there is. Trust means followers believe there is no duplicity; no manipulation just to satisfy the leader's ego. Very simply: The effective leader is transparent; that's why that person is trusted.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Block, Believe, Mean

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I know that, for me, working with people like Robert Rodriguez and Ridley Scott and the Coen brothers and Oliver Stone and Gus Van Sant was so much easier than working with a lot of the people I had worked with before, because with these guys, there's not a lot of ego involved. It's all about the work. It's all about how to make the story better. So at the end of the day, you feel a trust that you usually don't feel - or at least I haven't felt in the past with most people.

  Josh Brolin

  Brother, Past, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

  Liam Gallagher

  People, Suffering

  "Liam Gallagher: Still cranky, finally solo". Interview with Allison Stewart, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• I encourage people to have a daily spiritual practice; that's the best way to take care of yourself. If you have that daily practice, it means you're getting divine guidance, and you're not being guided by your ego or your personality.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Mean, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience. Other than just the purely enjoyable aspect of being on a nice, natural drug, I think doing such drug can be a very positive force in constantly forcing you to see yourself in a new way, and see and hear others in a new way. It really brings you back to square one. It deteriorates the ego, is basically what I'm saying.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Nice, Thinking, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is a part of a tool to tell the story. So if you feel something, it's wrong. It means you're not inside of the character.

  Juliette Binoche

  Character, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."

  Billy West

  Dare

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

  Lindy Booth

  Anxiety, Take A Deep Breath, Situation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically kind of have to just set everything else aside - it's like suddenly getting a temp job that requires you to work 16-hour days. Also just aesthetically, you have to completely leave all of your ego out of it.

  Owen Pallett

  Writing, Different, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's weird but it's amazing, and it's great to know people are thinking about you. It's a huge ego boost and anyone that says they don't love that is lying.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Lying, Thinking About You, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I think most actors . . . We are insecure, in general. I think to be an actor, you need to have an ego, but then, our ego is our worst enemy.

  Penelope Cruz

  Insecure, Thinking, Enemy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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