Ego Quotes
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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.
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Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations of celestial beings in disguise; they possess supernatural abilities, and they can be our spiritual guides and healers.
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There were no direct ego confrontations, we all just took it to the stage and everybody brought their A- game.
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I don't feel I have an alter ego.
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I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
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For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
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I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.
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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.
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Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.
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My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?
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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.
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Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.
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Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
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Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify his ego.
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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.'
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Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.
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'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.
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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
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If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.
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Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.
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Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.
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Be thankful for all successes, lose your ego, take risks, fail fast, and if you don't absolutely love what you do, run!
