My Ego Quotes
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.
You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.
The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.
A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.
Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.
When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.
I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.
Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron
Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't a good thing in some ways.
Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.
Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me. “Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.
I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.
In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.
For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.
Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!
I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.
There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.
You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.
You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.
Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.
I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.
The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.
Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."
To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.
When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.
The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.