Quotes About Ego

it seems that the conceptual activity that is created to serve the self has become the self.

when the mind serves "the self" it is actually serving something of its own making—a conceptual self.

Whatever we think of as "self" we will protect and maintain. If it's a conceptual self, and likely it is, then we end up with mind protecting mind.

When self becomes confused with mind, and mind becomes seen as the self, the mind's self-serving activities end up creating an experience of reality that is entirely self-referential.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

Ah, insanlar niçin her ?eyi anlam?yorlar? Be? dakika on dakika yar?m saat kendilerini unutsalar, kendilerini kar??lar?ndakinin yerine koysalar, tam onun gibi-fakat hiç eksiksiz ve tam- onun gibi duysalar, her ?ey ne kadar yerli yerinde olacak. Hay?r! ?lla ki z?ddiyetler, öfkeler, yanl?? anla??lmalar, inatlar, ?üpheler, hakim olmak arzular?…

Do you know what it's like going through life better than everybody? It's hard.

I don't know if you guys know this but I'm sort of a big deal.

Mick Jagger does it and, well, of course he does—he's Mick. Phil Collins does it and what an arsehole.

The bigger your head, the easier to fill your shoes.

As a leader your job is to do everything in your power to create the perfect conditions for success by benching your ego and inspiring your team to play the game the right way. But at some point, you need to let go and turn yourself over to the basketball gods. The soul of success is surrendering to what is.

To truly understand Alexander we must realize that—perhaps more than any man in history—he hated to lose. Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences. We can condemn the death and destruction he left in his wake as he strode across the world like a colossus, but in the end we can't help but admire a man who dared such great deeds.

A twisted sort of shyness has evolved as the digital self becomes less and less like the real-life operator. The ego is the playmaker; the character is the observer, as the external world shrinks to the size of Billy's bedroom.

As proud as Lucifer.

Second, character is in some sense an integrated product, as is suggested by the term "character-structure." There is a discoverable pattern in the way the ego is organized; and the existence of such a pattern is the basis of character analysis.

Durkheim goes on to argue that the cult of the individual has been misconstrued as the cult of the self-interested ego. Durkheim maintains that a collection of purely egotistical individuals could not form a society at all, that indeed, there has to be the recognition of others' interests, expressed in 'moral individualism' by the importance of equality and rights.

He believed that Galileo was wrong when he imagined an Earth that revolved around the sun. In his heart of hearts, Peter knew that the sun that was slowly rising over his city revolved around him.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

If you think, 'I breathe,' " said Shunryu Suzuki, the Zen teacher, "the 'I' is extra.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

Giving in to your ego is one of the oldest stories in the showbiz book. But so is figuring out how to stay vivid.

As a vocal performance major, I went to school with a lot of singers who were cocky and not very nice.