Quotes About Ego

The ego corrupts our mindset in five ways: (a) It chooses what we focus on, (b) it makes what we see all about us, (c) it concludes that all negative experiences are due to a deficiency within ourselves, (d) it magnifies the relevance of our focus, and (e) it causes us to believe that we can think our way out of a situation that is beyond our control or understand something that is unknowable.

It reminds us of a statement attributed to Voltaire: "God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to return the favor ever since.

I am not the enter of anything.

striking—a guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.

A guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

That brings up one of the resistances to surrendering pride, and that is pride itself. In the prideful position, one of the underlying problems is fear. We fear that, if we change our position in a certain matter, the opinion of others about us will be adversely affected.

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece but Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!

You're not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you.

Still, there were moments when, against all reason, I thought I might be a genius. These moments were provoked not by any particular accomplishment but by cocaine and crystal methamphetamine — drugs that allow you to lean over a mirror with a straw up your nose, suck up an entire week's paycheck, and think, "God, I'm smart.

He spends a lot of time telling you how smart he is, which is odd because, if you're truly all that bright, people can usually figure it out on their own.

You're not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you. If there's a disaster, for instance, and someone tells me he donated five thousand dollars to the relief effort—this while I gave a lesser amount, or nothing at all—I don't think, Goodness, how bighearted you are, but, rather, Fuck you for making me look selfish.

I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of people I've never even met.

I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!

Disagreeing has become an easy way to feel better about yourself for being smarter than everybody else. I call it the assholier-than-thou syndrome.

For all his ego and mendacity, Moore is immensely popular. He's got an Oscar, more film awards than we can easily count, and a following whose blindest followers resemble cult members. Like a cult, the Moore movement shares the drive to recruit converts....

A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum.

La obsesión de colocarnos en el centro de todo es la ruina tanto de los teólogos como de los zoólogos.

Es el ego quien nos engaña para que pensemos que tenemos razones para hacer lo que sea necesario con tal de imponernos sobre aquellos que percibimos como nuestros enemigos.

Ocuparnos de nuestros hijos es nuestra responsabilidad, pero poseerlos es una ilusión creada por el ego que sólo causará dolor y sufrimiento para ellos y para nosotros.

Tal como explica Rav Áshlag, el ego es esa voz dentro de nosotros que dispara el juicio, el control, la ira, el orgullo e incluso el odio.

Well, they got that habit from us. We always wanted to be seen to be right. To be on the right side of an issue. More so even than doing anything. Being right was always the most important thing.

We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship...Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.