Best ego & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.”

Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.”

Ifs Needs Believe Stuff Ego Extras Impress If You Believe Best Work

Author:Keith Johnstone

“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”

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Book:The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams

“It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.”

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Author:Richard Rosen

“Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.”

Thinking Needs Humans Known Ego Criticism Errors Opponents Dogma Antidote Dogmatic

Author:David Brin

“The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.”

Needs Art Hate Consciousness Ego Art Is Instinct Evolve Impulse Awake

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.”

People Ifs Needs Ends Force Ought Ego Brushes

Author:Robert Genn

“I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.”

Knows World Needs Sometimes Artist Certain Imagination Ego Stubborn Gears Circulation Figments Egomaniacs

Author:Jon Pareles

“We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.”

World Needs Feels Wish Water Common Ego Conscience Agreement Drop Of Water Separateness

Author:Mark Tobey

“How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.”

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Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.”

Needs Important Different Character Energy Ego Performances

Author:Brandon Routh

“I could not believe that anyone who has read this book would be so foolish as to proclaim that the Bible in every literal word was the divinely inspired, inerrant word of God. Have these people simply not read the text? Are they hopelessly misinformed? Is there a different Bible? Are they blinded by a combination of ego needs and naïveté?”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.”

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Author:Stuart Wilde

“All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.”

Knows Needs Feels Ego Superiors Inferiors

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.”

Needs Feels Self Feelings Suffering Company Solitude Ego Humble Modest Inadequate

Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

“The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.”

Thinking World Needs Giving Humans Important Together Order Actors Strong Company Creative Share Achieve Ego Elements Prepared Very Strong Being Human Be Creative Great Company

Author:George Ogilvie

“You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.”

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Author:Richard Rohr

“For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.”

People Needs War States Interest Share Ego Going To War Personal Interest

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.”

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Author:Taylor Hackford

“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.”

Needs Stories Order Courses Opinion Position Perspective Ego Judgement Identification

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“Every need got an ego to feed.”

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Author:Bob Marley

“My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.”

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Author:Randy Jackson

“Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.”

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Author:Lauryn Hill

“For me, the only ego that needs serving in putting together a film is the story's, the ego of the story and it's the piece itself that you want to bring out the voice of the piece. You're really serving that and that's the thing that you have a basic understanding of.”

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Author:Julia Ormond

“One of the things that is always difficult about a collaboration is that you don't necessarily find the same thing funny. And so the challenge becomes, how do you tell the other person that you don't think something's funny? The best collaborations tend to be when you are willing to be told that. But there's also ego involved, and so there's a lot of frustration in knowing that you're writing something, and the other person, on some level, needs to think that it's funny.”

Thinking Needs Writing Persons Difficult Challenges Levels Knowing Willing Involved Ego Frustration Collaboration

Author:Michael Showalter

“The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).”

“You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you're letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.”

Thinking Way Want Needs Feels Should Ego Be You

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“You must make a daily effort to look upon others without condemnation. Every judgment takes you away from your goal of peace. Your ego loves your judgments, because with them you remain in a constant state of anguish and remorse. Keep in mind that you do not define anyone with your judgment; you only define yourself as someone who needs to be judged.”

Needs Mind Looks States Goal Effort Love You Ego Judgment Constant Look Up Judged Anguish Remorse Condemnation Define Yourself

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.”

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Author:Steven Soderbergh

“When you are in-spirit (inspired) you have no need for the ego.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.”

“There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.”

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Author:Richard Rohr

“Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.”

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Author:Dick Cavett

“We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.”

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Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.”

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Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.”

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Author:Edgar Mitchell

“Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."”

Knows Want Needs Real Sometimes Helping Guy Ego Yeah Impress This Guy

Author:Travis Morrison

“That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego?”

Thinking World Needs Song Asks Ego Songwriters

Author:Jeff Tweedy

“We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.”

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Author:Roger Ailes

“There are two things you need to ask for, to open up that channel, so you get the light. One is humility, because our ego is always going to block that guidance, and so you ask for humility.And the second thing you're going to ask for is courage, because what you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.”

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Author:Sophia Amoruso

“Edward Snowden has inspired changes and awareness, which is very important in this day and age, and sometimes egos need to be set aside, even with powerful people, and we need to look at the full picture.”

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Author:Birgitta Jonsdottir

“Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise power and control people's minds, or is he a 5-year-old who has an ego that needs to be fed, and the universe has to warp around his ego needs so he can feel good about himself, and everybody has to produce photos to make the monarch feel like he's made of gold.”

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Author:David Brooks

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