Ego Quotes
-
Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.
-
An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner . . . The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. It is therefore necessary that an attempt be made as soon as possible to solve the problem, which of course must first be discovered by the ego, which has avoided it.
-
'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.
-
The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.
-
True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.
-
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
-
I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.
-
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
-
A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
-
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.
-
Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.
-
For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.
-
Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.
-
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
-
Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.
-
The ego … reduces the present to a means to an end.
-
Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.
-
What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.
-
You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.
-
I don't feel I have an alter ego.
-
You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.'
-
I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore.
-
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love.
-
Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify his ego.
