Ego Quotes
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To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
Ken Adam
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Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
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Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.
Nicki Minaj
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The consciousness of a general idea has a certain 'unity of the ego' in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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You don't want to vilify your ego.
Jeff Bridges
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All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.
Nicholas James Murphy
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Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.
Debbie Ford
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The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Donald Trump is a lost soul wandering this Earth. He's been led down the Willy Loman path and believes his own hype. He's serving his little self and his little ego; otherwise, why would he need to overcompensate so much?
Andrew Garfield
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To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
Marianne Williamson
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I selfishly like a lot of first-time directors because they over-prepare, they're super eager, and there's very little ego.
Mark Duplass
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The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego's hat off and leaving it at the door, then they can dive deep within themselves and we can pull out something interesting that people have never heard before. It's the stuff that's - that no one's ever heard before is really interesting.
Pharrell Williams
N.E.R.D.
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Politics, for me, is not a competition to see who's got the bigger ego. It's working together for the good of the people.
Mauricio Macri
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The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.
Emil Cioran
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Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it's amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.
Christopher Priest
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I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.
Amber Valletta
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When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.
Keith Haring
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Any comparison to a WWE legend or someone I've looked up to is really cool, but make no mistake about it, my ego is too big to want to be a really good replica of someone else!
Dolph Ziggler
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The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.
Chogyam Trungpa
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An audience is not so much a complement to an actor's ego, as a challenge to his capacities.
Orson Welles
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For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.
Louise Brooks
