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True peace resides in stepping off the path, where the wild unknown whispers ancient truths and every misdirection becomes a cherished lesson.
Author:
Lila Hartmann
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Intellectual humility is the alchemical redoubt where ego dissolves and true understanding crystallizes.
Author:
Camila Trent
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
Author:
Ken Wilber
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I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
Author:
Joss Whedon
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It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
Author:
Eberhard Weber
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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Author:
Alan Watts
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If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.
Author:
Janine Turner
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Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
Author:
Donald Sutherland
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
Author:
Kevin Spacey
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
Author:
Yakov Smirnoff
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The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
Author:
Allan Sloan
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Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!
Author:
Ryan Seacrest
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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
Author:
Robert Schuller
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I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.
Author:
Rob Schneider
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That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'
Author:
David Russell
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I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
Author:
David Russell
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That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.
Author:
David Russell
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Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
Author:
Geoffrey Rush
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It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
Author:
Brandon Routh
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Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Author:
Pat Riley
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I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
Author:
Lou Reed
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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Author:
Colin Powell
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Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Author:
Colin Powell
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Author:
Colin Powell
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Author:
Max Planck
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When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.
Author:
Michael Pitt
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It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.
Author:
Bruce Perens
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You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.
Author:
Leonard Nimoy
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I own and operate a ferocious ego.
Author:
Bill Moyers
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For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines.
Author:
Marc Morial
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In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
Author:
Elizabeth Moon
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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
Author:
George Michael
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Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
Author:
Marc Maron
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My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.
Author:
Herbie Mann
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
Author:
Bill Maher
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The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
Author:
Ernst Mach
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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Author:
Clare Luce
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Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
Author:
Chris Lowe
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I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.
Author:
Sabrina Lloyd
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Ego is good.
Author:
Thomas Leonard
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An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
Author:
Tom Lehrer
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
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It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
Author:
Lee Konitz
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Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
Author:
William Kennedy
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
Author:
James Joyce
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If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.
Author:
Dwayne Johnson
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Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.
Author:
Darren Johnson
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The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.
Author:
Darren Johnson
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Author:
Muhammed Iqbal
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Author:
Muhammed Iqbal
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
Author:
Muhammed Iqbal
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
Author:
Muhammad Iqbal
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I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
Author:
Michael Hutchence
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I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
Author:
Whitney Houston
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It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Author:
Bell Hooks
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If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
Author:
Dee Hock
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As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
Author:
Martin Heidegger
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I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
Author:
Valerie Harper
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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.
Author:
Keith Haring
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I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.
Author:
Scott Hamilton
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
Author:
Taylor Hackford
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
Author:
Taylor Hackford
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And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
Author:
Taylor Hackford
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It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
Author:
Taylor Hackford
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
Author:
Alec Guinness
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I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.
Author:
Richard Gough
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To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.
Author:
Dexter Gordon
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Author:
Barry Gibb
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Author:
Northrop Frye
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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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The ego is not master in its own house.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
Author:
Peter Fonda
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I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
Author:
Bobby Fischer
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I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.
Author:
Louis Farrakhan
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A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
Author:
Will Eisner
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
Author:
Will Durant
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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.
Author:
Ann Druyan
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I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.
Author:
Hugh Downs
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Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.
Author:
Don Dokken
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We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
Author:
Betty Dodson
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I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
Author:
Gavin DeGraw
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But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.
Author:
Robert Conrad
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The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
Author:
Andrew Cohen
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With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
Author:
Glenn Close
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
Author:
John Cheever
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Author:
Raymond Chandler
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
Author:
Dan Castellaneta
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I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
Author:
Jim Carrey
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Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
Author:
Pat Brown
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Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
Author:
John Bradshaw
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My performances have finally caught up with my ego.
Author:
Ato Boldon
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If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.
Author:
Lewis Black
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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
Author:
Roseanne Barr
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A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.
Author:
Matthew Barney
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In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
Author:
David Baker
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
Author:
W. Auden
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There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.
Author:
Giorgio Armani
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I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it's about work, and that's refreshing in this town.
Author:
Lauren Ambrose
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I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.
Author:
Al Alvarez
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
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I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.
Author:
Amy Adams
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The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Author:
Dean Acheson
