Ego Quotes - Page 34

• When I'm on purpose - when I'm allowing Source to come through - it's always there. At those times, I'm not focused on any ego sense about how much I'm going to make, how well a book is going to do, whether people are going to buy it, or any of that. I just go to a state of awe and gratitude - I'm deeply, profoundly grateful - and it just works. The first words out of my mouth every morning are "I thank you."

  Wayne Dyer

  Gratitude, Morning, Book

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• You came here with something to do. You are part of a universal consciousness, and there are no accidents in it. In your true essence - not the false self, not the ego part of you, but in the true essence of who you are - you are infinite and you have something very profound to accomplish while you're here. Otherwise you wouldn't be here.

  Wayne Dyer

  Profound, Consciousness, Infinite

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• I think it's just recognizing that who you are is not any of the stuff that you have. It's not any of the things of the ego. Coming to that awareness is a very hard thing for most people to do - but that's an excuse. If you tell yourself it's too hard, then you won't take it on. But right now, for most people, it's almost an impossibility to do so, because they're so attached to "I am what I have"; "I am what I do"; "I am what my reputation is"; or "I am all of this material stuff."

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, People, Reputation

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• Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

  Marina Abramovic

  Believe, Creativity, Greatness

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• Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

  Aesop

  Fear, Conceited, Self

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.23, Pelekanos Books

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• Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Giving Up, People

  "FINDING MY RELIGION / Part 1: World-renowned religious scholar Karen Armstrong talks about today's religious conflicts and how the past can help". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. April 10, 2006.

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• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  Karen Armstrong

  Afterlife, Losing, Not Interested

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• Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.

  Alan Ball

  Distance, Reality, Love Is

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• We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Home, Media, Hands

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• But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

  Anna Benson

  Giving Up, People, Effort

  "How 'Baseball Wives' star Anna Benson keeps 12-year marriage interesting". www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.

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• At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life.

  Annie Besant

  Past, Men, Knowing

  Annie Besant (2017). “Death and After?”, p.21, BookRix

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• You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

  Jello Biafra

  Thinking, People, President

  "Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time'". Interview with Dom Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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• If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Health

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• As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

  Bono

  Believe, Heart, Views

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Names, Self, Consciousness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

  Danny Boyle

  Awards, Stuff, Way

  Interview with Chris Tilly, www.ign.com. January 7, 2009.

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• My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

  Chris Brown

  Basketball, Jobs, Home

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• The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cutting

  "Kobe Bryant On The Black Mamba". Interview with Benjamin Clymer, www.askmen.com. June 11, 2009.

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• Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

  Candace Bushnell

  Girl, Real, Book

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• I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Mind, Looks, Needs

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• I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

  Kirk Cameron

  Thinking, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

  Graydon Carter

  Kids, Vanity, Editing

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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• The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Trying, Deeper

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• Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

  David Cone

  Hurt, Thinking, Player

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• I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Years, Jerk, Bigs

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