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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Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.
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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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'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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We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.
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Perhaps you could say that mountaineers are driven by ego or our competitiveness, but there's a lot more to it than that. Whether it's a huge face in the Himalaya or some crag in the woods behind your house, exploration offers us a unique perspective on the world that you can't really find anywhere else.
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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.
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
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The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.
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Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.
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Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.
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Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.
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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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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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It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
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The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.
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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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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.
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The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.
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I don't feel I have an alter ego.
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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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The Ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.
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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
