Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rumi

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Rumi

Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.

Tom Robbins

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

Sigmund Freud

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Sigmund Freud

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Sigmund Freud

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

Sigmund Freud

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

Sigmund Freud

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

Steven Tyler

I can't live off the ego.

Robbie Williams

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

Randy Jackson

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

Rajneesh

Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new. And you have to respond, not out of your knowledge, but out of your present awareness. Only then life works, otherwise life stops working. If your life is not working, remember, it is the ego that is hindering, the mechanical has encroached upon the organic. To be free from the mechanical is to be in God, because it is to be in the organic unity of existence.

Scott Hamilton

I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.

Rajneesh

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

Rajneesh

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Rajneesh

"Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be. A wants to be B - the ego is created out of this very tension. How does the ego die? The ego dies by you accepting what you are. That you say, "I am fine as I am, where I am is good. I will remain just as existence keeps me. Its will is my will."

Rajneesh

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Rajneesh

You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain wealth in this world, then you try to attain wealth in that world. But you remain the same, and the mind and the functioning and the whole scheme remains the same: Attain! Reach! This is the ego trip. The achieving mind is the ego.

Rajneesh

Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a beggar who has nothing else you will find the same ego as you will find in Alexander the Great, because desiring is the same. Alexander the Great may have much money and much power, that does not matter; he is still desiring. The beggar may not have anything, but he is also desiring.

Norman Cousins

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

Nolan Bushnell

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

Terrell Owens

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

Michael Hutchence

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining

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.

Matthew Perry

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

Plautus

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]