Ego Quotes - Page 8

• me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Three, Pronouns, Cases

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.141, 谷月社

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• Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Style, Suffering, Together

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• What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

  Martin Buber

  Given, Indispensable, Including

  Rivka Horwitz, Martin Buber (1988). “Buber's way to "I and thou": the development of Martin Buber's thought and his "Religion as presence" lectures”, Jewish Pubn Society

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• The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Simple, Facts, Excitement

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.267, UPNE

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• Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

  Miles Davis

  Player, Men, Looks

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• An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Self, Faults

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

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• Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.

  Adyashanti

  Giving, Mind, Perception

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• Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.

  Robert Genn

  People, Needs, Brushes

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• I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.

  Art Buchwald

  Believe, Thinking, Earth

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• It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

  Taylor Hackford

  Fighting, Choices, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Determined, Individual

  Muhammad Iqbal (2010). “The Secrets of the Self”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Hate, Needs

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.140, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Who I Am, Sometimes

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Apology, Two Sides, Apologizing

  1858-9 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

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• What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Teacher, Soul

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• My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

  Janine Turner

  Letting Go, Desire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.

  Brian Weiss

  Pride, Joy, Soul

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• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  Yehuda Berg

  Ego Problem, Self, People

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• Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

  Max Planck

  Consciousness, Humans, Human Consciousness

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• A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Beer

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• If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mean, Self, Aquariums

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

  Woody Guthrie

  Play, Two, Rock N Roll

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• Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Pain, Children, Space

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

  James Joyce

  Individual, Nations

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

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