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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.
The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.
There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.
Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.
The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.
I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.
We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.
[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.
You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.
Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.
Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.
I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.
Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.
There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises
Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.
Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.
There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it's - it's another ego separation tool.
Brunette is who I am obviously, it's my core. Blonde Kim is this alter ego; she has a vibe to her that I love.