Quotes About Ego

The long view is good for morale. If it is an affront to the ego, it is also an antidote to vanity, ambition, and greed. Our ultimate insignificance makes the case for living well in the present, for no other purpose survives. It also suggests the value of viewing oneself as part of a whole.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

had it easy. Because he didn't have to run a ministry or manage a congregation, he was free to engage people exactly as he found them. He didn't have to make them do anything for him; thus, he was free to love them and they were free to respond to that love or reject it. He didn't need their tithes to pay his salary, their attendance to validate his ego, or their time to fill out his program.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you do is for yourself And there isn't one.

It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false "me" no longer identifies himself with his suffering.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Give a man an inch and he'll call himself a ruler,

The failure of wisdom is to believe in self-esteem.

We are all such egotists that a sorrow or hardship—provided it is great enough—flatters our self-importance. We feel that a calamity by overtaking us has distinguished us above our fellows. A man likes not to be ignored even by a railway accident. A man with a grievance is always happy.

Baumeister's group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion. In

Baumeister's group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion.

el esfuerzo de la voluntad o autocontrol es fatigoso; si hemos de forzarnos a hacer algo, estamos menos dispuestos, o somos menos capaces, de ejercer el autocontrol si el próximo reto está cerca. El fenómeno se ha denominado agotamiento del ego.

In contrast, increasing effort is not an option when you must keep six digits in short-term memory while performing a task. Ego depletion is not the same mental state as cognitive busyness.

the effects of ego depletion could be undone by ingesting glucose

Intuitive errors are normally much more frequent among ego-depleted people, and the drinkers of Splenda showed the expected depletion effect. On the other hand, the glucose drinkers were not depleted. Restoring the level of available sugar in the brain had prevented the deterioration of performance.

The bold implication of this idea is that the effects of ego depletion could be undone by ingesting glucose, and Baumeister and his colleagues have confirmed this hypothesis in several experiments.

His ego was depleted after a long day of meetings. So he just turned to standard operating procedures instead of thinking through the problem.

his association with the Rockefellers had inflated his already healthy sense of self to a point of bloated grandiosity, and

Only firm intent and alert awareness can muster the will-power required to liberate yourself from the simian clutches of the emotional mind, which clings to the human ego as the proverbial 'monkey' of drug addiction clings to addicts.

Once one has experienced emptiness, he is not likely to fall back to egoic thinking, unless he has an impulse to ignorance.

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.