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“I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.”

Thinking Kind Sides Party Ego Alter Ego Snooki

Author:Nicole Polizzi

“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

“You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.”

Universe Sides Poet Ego Models Get Away Where You Are Equations Victorian

Author:Peter Wolf

“Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.”

“Apology is only egotism wrong side out.”

Sides Ego Apology Apologizing Egotism Two Sides I Apologize Being Sorry

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“I'd rather be on this side of the camera. I feel more comfortable. I'd rather keep myself centered and keep my ego as tepid as possible. Because you can get a big head walking around here.”

Feels Bigs Sides Walking Ego Comfortable Cameras Self Centered Big Heads

Author:Ralph Sarchie

“Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and not at all driven by ego or championing who he is as an individual. It's all about the art. Whereas Herzog is constantly placing himself into the engine. Malick is such a gentle poet.”

Art Character Individual Sides Term Poet Ego Driven Gentle Engines Spectrum Recluse

Author:Sam Pressman

“I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.”

Source: Conspiracy Game

“There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.”

Knows Men Ends Force Sides Honest Politician Demand Ego Deserve Faults Conviction Candidates Voters Sheer Both Sides Honest Man Aisle

Book:Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence

Source: Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence

“Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky”

Persons Earth Form Sides Sky Ego Remains Boundaries Enlightened Memories Dreams Reflections

Book:Answer to Job

Source: Answer to Job

“First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.”

Giving Trying Firsts Book Self Light Belief Sides Holy Ego Giving Up Emptiness Attachment Surround Lightning Splendor Luminous Illusory Holy Books Colorless

Author:Gautama Buddha

“There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.”

“The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.”

Self Seems Happens Speak Sides Term Consciousness Psychology Subjects Objects Ego Moved Factors Evolve Unconscious Surround Suitable Exponents

Author:Carl Jung