Ego Quotes - Page 51

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

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.

I'm a control freak. I'm defensive. And I'm an egomaniac. That's true about me.

If you could press a button and your ego investment was less, the toothache would be less. Or less tragic at least.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world that we live in now has much greater density to it; it is much more all-pervasive. And when I say "world," I include the human mind in it. The human mind has grown even since the time of the Buddha, 2,500 years ago. The human mind is more noisy and more all-pervasive, and the egos are bigger.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

The contract like '91 Dan Marino. I swear this guy Michael Rapino's boostin my ego.