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“It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.”

Important Roles Judging Ego Feds Leadership Roles Foreground

Author:Ruth Simmons

“The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.”

Trying Firsts Play Character Remember Realizing Roles Ego First Time Who I Am Climbs Texas Flattering Mixing Reacting Motels

Author:Paul Newman

“There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role.”

People Has Beens Roles Talent Ego League

Author:Kurt Rambis

“If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.”

Ifs I Can Shows Can Do Roles Ego Intention Be Good Block

Author:Ezra Miller

“I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never get to do in real life - and it appeals to my ego as an actor to play the Queen of Everything. I admit it.”

Real Play Character Actors Roles Ego Bigger Real Life Appeals Queens Animation Bigger Than Life

Author:Virginia Madsen

“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.”

Needs Mind Games Roles Return Mets Ego Identification Playing Games

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.”

Want Self Spiritual Social Roles Ego Being Yourself Thrive Mask Approval Self Conscious Self Empowerment Social Interaction Command And Control

Book:The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

“Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.”

Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

“It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast true nature.”

World Play Home Pain Roles Risk Ego Pressure Guides Release Liberation True Nature

Author:Joanna Macy

“Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.”

Ideas Play Reality Certain Social Water Roles Ego Institutions Who You Are Noise Symbols Organisms Liquid Living Organisms Social Institutions

Book:Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion

Source: Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion