“The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your “feeling.”” ThinkingMindSelfFeelingsDreamOrderEmotionSelf EsteemJudgingEgoEssentialsMercyIntellectSupremeEsteemBetrayedRelianceInarticulateTribunals Author:John Galt
“For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.” MenBelieveBeliefWomenRealizingAttentionBalanceEgoEssentialsEnlightenmentSuperiorsPermit Author:Frederick Lenz
“Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.” WantTermEgoEssentialsElementsLosingWhat You WantLosing Everything Author:Dane Cook
“Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."” WorldWayTwoOrderProcessEgoEssentialsHeyPutinTwo WaysWorld OrderStood UpManiaEgomaniacs Author:David Brooks
“If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.” IfsMeanSelfInterestEgoEssentialsEfficientTerrificEgotismAquariums Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine
“Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the soul, and it creeps up to it and steals one of its essential camouflages. In a hunger for soul, our own ego-self steals the pelt” SoulSelfLightPossibilityEgoEssentialsLonelyHungerStealingHungryCreepsCamouflage Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears, imagination disappears, past and future disappear, or take desire out and effort disappears and time disappears and ego disappears. Just take one thing out of the gestalt and the whole gestalt simply disappears; it cannot exist without certain things. Those are the very essentials of it - effort is one of the essentials. Hence all the great Masters of the world have taught about grace.” WorldMindHumansWholePastDesireCertainImaginationEffortGraceOne ThingTaughtMastersEgoEssentialsDisappearHuman MindCollapsePalacesEdificeGestalt Author:Rajneesh
“Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.” SufferingOrderEgoEssentialsCoatsStainsElimination Author:Meher Baba
“I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try and get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego, tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.” IfsWantTryingMindWellsMeanStillsHardEnoughHandsBigsHappensStarsMorningRichFineEgoEssentialsWake UpIntelligentComplexesFatsDamnSomedayBreakfastInferiorsSchedulesEmbarrassingMovie StarHand In HandBeing RichBreakfast At TiffanysTiffany's Author:Holly Golightly
“Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.” PeopleDesireStrongEgoEssentialsSurvivalAdvantagePrizeRoughGoing AwayLinksPerformersFierceTranslateSparesCompetitorsPsychologistFormidableCompetitivenessCompetitive AdvantageStrength Of Will Author:Bill Walsh
“Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.” PracticeStruggleIdentityPersonalityEgoEssentialsYogaBlissYoga Practice Book:Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul Source: Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul