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“I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.”

Thinking Wells Children Self Sides My Own Known Creative Ego Responsible Secure Well Known Creative Work

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.”

People Care Jobs Names My Own Company Ego Versions Obsessed Italian Very Happy Ego Trip

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“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.”

Way Able My Own Television Ego Theatre Mess Shut Up

Author:Matthew Perry

“I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.”

“When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could do something exciting there.”

Want Opportunity Difficult My Own Ego Projects Exciting Wings Historical Accepted Instance Museums Publication

Author:I. M. Pei

“When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away. I was there buck naked, humiliated, sitting in my own crap and urine - this is a metaphor. My ego had run off. Your ego is the biggest coward.”

Hard Reality Running My Own Ego Sitting Breaths Metaphor Naked Jail Coward Crap Bucks Stance Humiliated

Author:Tim Allen

“What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?”

Wells Real Desire My Own Source Ego Well Being Territory

Book:Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

Source: Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

“Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.”

People Littles Sometimes My Own Talent Ego Flying Ships Resent

Author:Robert Plant

“I find my own pain and others' difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they'll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it's a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.”

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Author:Danny Boyle

“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.”

Want Truth My Own Interesting Ego Sick Disgusting Distinguished

Author:J. D. Salinger

“I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.”

Way Want Needs I Can Facts Body Given My Own Sacrifice Air Love You Ego Survival Breathe Naked Pity Fuel Lungs

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Feels Persons Self Use My Own Ability Risk Objects Ego Reflection Commitment Absence Willingness Exploitation Exposure Ability To See I Need Him

Author:Erich Fromm

“My own observation is: lovers don't surrender to each other, they surrender to something unknown that exists between them. They surrender to love - call it the 'god of love' - they both surrender to the god of love. Hence nobody's ego is fulfilled by your surrender; both the egos disappear in love.”

My Own Lovers Ego Disappear Surrender Observation Fulfilled Surrender To Love

Author:Rajneesh

“All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.”