Top 1200 Inflated Ego Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more tense. Relaxation is not a consequence, is not a result of some activity; it is the glow of understanding. This is the first thing I would like to relate to you: life is purposeless. It is very hard to accept it. And why is it so hard to accept that life is purposeless? It is hard because without purpose the ego cannot exist. It is hard to conceive that life has no goal because without any goal being there, there is no point in having a mind, in having an ego.

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.

Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.

An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.

Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

I hate when pitchers get me out multiple times. It's probably an ego thing, but I don't like that.

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.

Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!

You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

The worst quality in a man is a really big ego - that would turn me off.

I had this alter ego where I would go to the theater with mom. I wasn't embarrassed by it; it was separate for me.

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

It was easy for me to play someone with a massive ego. It's actually really fun to have the freedom to be that person.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

I am not saying I don't think I'm good, but I'm not the type of player to have an ego or big myself up.

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.

What happens if the music or alter ego isn't well received? The fact that people are talking about it, I won already.

It's certainly something we haven't seen before in terms of a fully commercial global brand - really a family of brands - not just Trump but also Ivanka, who has a sub-brand. We've never seen this before. We've had presidents in financial conflicts of interest before, but this phenomenon where a sitting president image avatar is out there selling golf courses and condominiums, even as he is in office and having the value of his personal brand inflated dramatically by fact of his being president, is new territory.

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.

The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.

The downfall of any leader in a sport's team is when he gets carried away with his own ego.

I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.

I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

I think the concept of ego has kind of taken over for a lot of people in our industry.

The contract like '91 Dan Marino. I swear this guy Michael Rapino's boostin my ego.

We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal' demonstrates that we will keep going despite the difficulties. It reveals our ego.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Competition keeps you young. It motivates you. It challenges your ego. Messi and Ronaldo have this with each other.

"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a temporary monopoly and then mark up the price of the product or sell licenses at high prices to those who want to use the kind of product that the innovator has invented. This system is collectively irrational because many people, to avoid the inflated prices of still-patented cleaner and greener technologies, opt for some older technology that is much more polluting.

Generally speaking, ego isn't a good thing. Humility is the most important quality in a human being.