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" Quotes and Sayings About ego

For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

Drive Wit Ego Vision
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Any Crazy Either Man
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Often times we are the biggest obstacle in our path. Confidence is a driving force to growth but ego can unravel work at lightning speed. Work hard to understand the difference.

Driving force Path Work hard Growth
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There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

Remember Laugh Forget Those
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Success People Wrote Down
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If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.

Correct Feel Ego Problem
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My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.

Alone Arrange Break Chapel
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

Slow Champion Fear Transform
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Shine Soul Egoless Humility
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We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

Soul Realm Calm Still
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Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

Horrible Hold Feel Maybe
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But by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

Ego Fragile Harder Feel
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When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

Waste Enjoy Being Onstage
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The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It’s not a speculative market. It’s a very, very large market. It’s been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

Category Music Speculate Market
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When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.
Doing Job Handbag Come
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If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Check Ego Door Comes
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Alone Attention Boost Egos
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With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.

Competition There Ego Hubris
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

About Acute Deal Egotism
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

Action Categories Combat Elements
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

American Cannot Country Discarded
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It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

About Community High High Time
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Also Animal Brains Egotistical
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
About Egos Elites Masses
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Active Defect Individual Likeness
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Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Close Down Shot Ego
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I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

Bunch Category Devices Different
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You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

Buy Day Every Negotiate
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When you're part of hip-hop culture but you're a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they'll create a category for you, like, 'Oh, gospel rap!'

Category Christian Create Culture
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There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.

Being Between Egotistical Genius
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If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

Any Black Care Category
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You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Assumption Bruise Ego False
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

Appreciating Category Fall Genre
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Achievements Compulsive Continuously Ego
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Case Confident Constantly Defense
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Affects Always Annihilation Around
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I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is not the only thing to be done - I want to have an effect on the world.

Done Effect Got Keep
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Children Feel Intensely Needs
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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Average Ego Every Extent
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The ego is not master in its own house.

Ego House Master Own
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Where id was, there ego shall be.

Ego ID Shall Where
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If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

As Far As Being Being Famous Dead
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

Was Scapegoat Media Put
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It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

American American People Critical Financial
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Afflict Disease Egotism Executives
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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Cry Ego Goals Must
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Days Every Intense Just
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abuse Arbitrary Clinical Distinctions
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I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.

Spiritual Crazy Inspiration
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Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Confrontation Era Let Us Move
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