Famous Quotes & Sayings

You watch them up close, they understand each other's strengths. There's no ego there. If there was an ego, it wouldn't work.

Eric Idle

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

Marianne Moore

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Max Planck

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Max Lucado

Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

Maynard James Keenan

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

Maynard James Keenan

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

Maya Angelou

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

The most impressive thing to me is how the guys have jelled in such a short period of time. There are no egos on this team.

Sathya Baba

About the Ego. There are two fields in which it operates and so, it has two meanings,

A lot of other places I've worked at are incredibly ego-driven.

All of our egos were flushed down the toilet after that game. We were knocked down from riding that high horse.

You're in a dark, quiet room, there's nobody there, and you may not get your first ratings for a year. If you don't enjoy the process, you're not going to get the instant gratification. Radio is not fulfilling to an ego that needs instant excitement and a loud crowd.

Sam Mendes

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

S. Truett Cathy

You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!

Stuart Wilde

Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.

Stuart Wilde

Do things the ego does not like to do.

Stuart Wilde

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

Stuart Wilde

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

Penelope Keith

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

Pema Chodron

Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

Pema Chodron

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

Pema Chodron

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

Terence McKenna

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

Terence McKenna

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Ram Dass

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

Shunryu Suzuki

How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.

Val McDermid

When all else fails, go for the ego.

Stephen King

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

Stanley Kunitz

The unconscious creates, the ego edits.

Stephen Wolfram

It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.

Sharon Horgan

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Robert Adams

There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.