“All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?” IfsWayGamesSpeakInterestingOur LivesSucceedEgoElementsFunctionAthleteClarityRemoveAthletics Author:Garth Stein
“It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.” IfsWorldInterestingCreativityEgoMessagesWindowUnconsciousSubconsciousEmailInstagramDaydreamingProfileIphoneIpodsGadgets Author:Jarvis Cocker
“In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed.” PeopleIfsWantPersonsSaidWantedPastDiesInterestingMysteryChangedEgoOur PastYour PastEmperorHang UpsChanged Person Book:Your Brain Is God Source: Your Brain Is God
“We all believe what we read. I read how Tom Cruise and I were two big egos holding up shooting. I know that isn't true - but if I wasn't making a movie with him and I just picked up the paper, I'd believe it. That's interesting, isn't it?” IfsKnowsBelieveTwoBigsInterestingEgoPaperShootingTomsCruiseBig Ego Author:Dustin Hoffman
“When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingCharacterSongVoiceImaginationInterestingEnvironmentAchieveStagePositionEgoSingingStudiosLike MeVarietyAlternativesReplicateAlter Ego Author:Planningtorock
“There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.” WantTryingLooksStatesMovingDesireInterestingGoneObjectsPaintingLike YouEgoConceptsMuseumsAestheticLive Your LifeObserversHarmonious Author:Zack Snyder
“The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So, my first instinct was a little bit of an ego tap, but the second I processed it, I was fine. The only weird thing will be maybe not having as many people live tweeting because they're actually out doing something more interesting on Friday night. I'm not going to sit at home, reading Twitter on Friday night.” PeopleFirstsLittlesHomeNightReadingBitsInterestingWatchesWeekFansFineEgoLittle BitInstinctVampireFridayDiariesWeird ThingsFriday NightDays Of The WeekVampire Diaries Author:Caroline Dries
“One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.” WorldInterestingBrainEgoModelsDirectOneselfPhilosopherContactCharacteristicsInternalsRealisticTunnelsRobustFinnish Author:Thomas Metzinger
“It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you get up to the precipice of them, you actually have to deliver. You actually have to understand that you're reaching a new level where there are way more eyes on you, way more expectations and way more pressure.” WayEyeJobsArtistInterestingLevelsEgoExpectationsPressureAimGet UpComedianReachingVery InterestingBeing An ArtistPrecipice Author:Chris Gethard
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.” WantTruthMy OwnInterestingEgoSickDisgustingDistinguished Author:J. D. Salinger
“I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.” MenLanguageInterestingGrewDadConversationEgoGrew UpSouthMy DadSizeSubtleTruckTestosteronePickupsPickup Trucks Book:Bloodfever Source: Bloodfever
“You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.” TwoTogetherInterestingConflictEgoAffairLove Affair Author:Terence McKenna