“Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.” ThinkingWritingSelfDoneCareSongEasySituationRocksEgoMusicianConsumedRock MusicHardcoreAlways ThinkingTrippingRock Musicians Author:Ryan Adams
“I've found in my own life that the older I get, the more stubborn I am in my beliefs and opinions. Without keeping my ego in check, it would be easy for me to bail on relationships when I didn't agree with someone. The antidote to this problem is humility, plain and simple. The more we claim an unassuming nature, the more we believe the best about people and situations, and the more we try and see others through the lens of love. We are then given the opportunity for our relationships to grow.” PeopleTryingBelieveProblemOpportunityBeliefEasySimpleSituationOpinionHumilityEgoAgreeOur RelationshipStubborn Author:Anne Marie Miller
“You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.” SelfChristSituationEgoBehaviorFlexibleInappropriateRigidity Author:John Cleese
“One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation - metaphorically. You're dealing with egos, and with egos the answer to everything is "more me." Sometimes the situation calls for less you.” SometimesCertainChallengesAnswersSituationEgoVacationClientsConvincing Author:Eric Dezenhall
“For me, it's never been an ego situation where I have been "I'm the boss; expletive you." It's always been a situation where someone comes to me and says "I can't tolerate working with you anymore" and I would admit sometimes I wouldn't blame them for that. But I also sometimes think I'm not that difficult to figure out. I don't really know what has driven people to be so angry and bitter - people like my old keyboard player Pogo, who I've known for such a long time. I feel bad for him, but there are grievances with everything.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsLongHas BeensI CanSometimesDifficultSituationKnownPlayerFiguresEgoLong TimeBlameAngryDrivenBitterBossTolerateKeyboardsGrievanceExpletivesKeyboard PlayersBitter People Author:Marilyn Manson
“I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.” SituationEgoAnxietyBubblesDeep BreathSocial AnxietyTake A Deep BreathAlter Ego Author:Lindy Booth
“Funnily enough, I feel the most free to be myself when I'm not doing my solo project. Whenever I'm in a situation when it's a side thing or it's something not so infused with my ego. When I'm all over everything, it's a big responsibility and half the time leaves me in some weird nether state of insecurity and doubt.” EnoughResponsibilitySituationDoubtEgoInsecurityLeaving Me Author:Ariel Pink
“To go too much another way, for the sake of my ego in wanting to create something... in the situation of Superman is just wrong. Especially since we're continuing, in a sense, that story. The characters have to feel somewhat similar. What are you going to do with Superman? The world, and all the people that have created it, created him and have all kind of come together to make this image. Everybody kind of has the same idea of what it should be. So for me to go, "Okay, no, I think he should have a southern accent." Or something crazy, just doesn't make any sense.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindCharacterTogetherSituationCrazyEgoOkayAll KindsSouthern Author:Brandon Routh
“The love to which ego is attached is a form of jealousy - this is why nobody is as jealous as lovers are. The love which is attached to the ego is a conspiracy and a trick to possess the other. It is a conspiracy - that is why nobody suffocates so many people as those who talk of love. This situation is created because of the 'love' which comes from the ego - there can never be any relation between love and the ego.” PeopleFormSituationLoversEgoRelationTricksJealousyJealousConspiracyYour Jealous Author:Rajneesh
“One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.” WantMightEnergyGoalPowerfulSituationMovementEgoIdealsHorseRelationGuidesCompareObligedPsychoanalysisRidersPrerogative Author:Sigmund Freud
“At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly, and you don’t have to struggle or force situations to go your way. It is only your ego mind that is fearful. When you surrender to spirit and listen to the voice of your deeper intelligence, you free yourself from fear and release the obstacles your ego has created.” WayMindSpiritForceVoiceLevelsSituationStruggleEgoObstaclesDeeperSurrenderReleaseFearfulUnfoldingFree Yourself Author:Deepak Chopra
“The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.” KnowsNeedsFeelsMomentsSituationProveEgoResponseValuableImpressDemonstratingProving Yourself Author:Iyanla Vanzant