Ego Quotes
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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.
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I don't feel I have an alter ego.
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Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural.
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I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.
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Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.
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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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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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Be thankful for all successes, lose your ego, take risks, fail fast, and if you don't absolutely love what you do, run!
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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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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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Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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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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You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
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It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
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Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify his ego.
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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
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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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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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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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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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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.
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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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Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
