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“The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.”

Looks Lines Goes On Ego Bridges Dolls Single Word Russian Dolls

Author:Craig Stone

“Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state -- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological -- in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.”

World Made Self Reality Lines Bears Ego Relation Boundaries Distinction Swallowing

Book:Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

Source: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.”

Ifs Years Wells Kind Self Enough School Past Lines Risk Taught Ego Clothes High School Twenties Prepared Lifetime Torture Be Kind Biographies Preservation Flattering Self Preservation Edited

Author:Sharyn McCrumb

“Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.”

Certain Lines Ego

Book:Misery

Source: Misery

“I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.”

Littles Self Faces Stuff Lines Design Pride Fine Ego Conscious Your Face Self Conscious Fine Lines

Author:Shepard Fairey

“Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means to you. And that's not true.”

Thinking Way Mean Lines Huge Ego

Author:Pusha T

“I think we've created a system here where only the lifelong politicians, who are used to this kind of life in the spotlight and don't care, or people who have egos along the lines of Donald Trump - who just don't care what people say about them - they're the only people who are ever going to run because nobody wants their life dissected as meanly and as randomly as our media has come to do with anybody who runs for office.”

People Thinking Want Kind Care Running Used Lines Media Trump Politician Ego Office Don't Care Lifelong Spotlight

Author:Mitch Albom

“Fragile egos are put on the line every day.”

Lines Ego Fragile

Author:Mary Lou Retton

“The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.”

People Lines Risk Willing Ego Rewards Recognition Reach Out Employee Recognition

Book:How to Work a Room: Learn the Strategies of Savvy Socializing - for Business and Personal Success

Source: How to Work a Room: Learn the Strategies of Savvy Socializing - for Business and Personal Success

“I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate, then I'm willing to go to a place where it hurts a lot more.”

Ifs Pain Hurt Lines Willing Pride Ego Beats Desperate It Hurts

Author:Shalane Flanagan