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An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.
Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth.
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.
Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.
Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.
What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.
You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.
Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.
Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.
The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.
The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.
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.
I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
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.
Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.
Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.
What about Beck?" "Backwoods Boy? Are you crazy? It'd be a threesome - me, him and his overbearing ego. Definitely doomed to failure.
A lot of times people are too ego caught up where they made the decision and "We're going to stick with it" and then I had to suffer.
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.
I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.
Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.
Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.
I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.
The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.
That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.
Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.
Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.
Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.
It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness.
It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.
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.
Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.
Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.
I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.
We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.
Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.