Ego Quotes - Page 4

• Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

  Wilson Mizner

  Humility, Humble, Carpe Diem

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• Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

  Don Dokken

  Alcohol, Drug

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• The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

  Will Durant

  Men, Mind, Age

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• Where id was, there ego shall be.

  Sigmund Freud

  New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis Lecture 31 (1933)

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• Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving, Doe, Analysis

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Bruises, Assumption

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

  Kathleen Turner

  Stupid, Risk, Trying

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• Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving Up, Quality, Bad Qualities

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• Pride that you express to other people is probably ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride. Pride of self is understanding that life is glorious, and that it 's an honor to be here.

  Stuart Wilde

  Real, Pride

  "The Secrets of Life".

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• I am not here for me
  I am not here to promote my ego
  I am here to serve the Great Spirit
  To be a voice for those afraid to speak
  To be movement for those who are stuck
  I am here to reveal a mystery
  To learn something new about myself

  Holly Near

  Voice, Movement, Spirit

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• Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.

  Dalai Lama

  Ideas, Delusion, Oneself

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• Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.

  Pema Chodron

  Feelings, Acting, Feels

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• The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

  Ramakrishna

  Water, Doe, Wave

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Children, Thinking, Self

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.

  Damien Hirst

  Fashion, Integrity, Looks

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• All my compatriots are asses compared to me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Ass

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• I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

  Paul Cezanne

  Stronger, Opinion, Mature

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• I am deeply superficial.

  Ava Gardner

  Superficial

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• One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

  Charles Atlas

  Artist, Differences, People

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• I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Humans, Human Beings

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• I am what I photograph.

  Martin Parr

  Photograph

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• It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

  Brandon Routh

  Character, Important, Energy

  "Superman Returns - Brandon Routh interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Patience, Solitude, Openness

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 42, 1990.

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• The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

  Northrop Frye

  Beauty, Temptation, Stronger

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.46, Dundurn

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• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

  Peter O'Toole

  Food, Artist, Pixar

  "Fictional character: Anton Ego". "Ratatouille", www.imdb.com. June 22, 2007.

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