“All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?” IfsWayGamesSpeakInterestingOur LivesSucceedEgoElementsFunctionAthleteClarityRemoveAthletics Author:Garth Stein
“When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.” SpeakEgoFlawsShortcomings Author:Aaron McGruder
“My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and they'll say, "Oh yeah, Steve's great. He doesn't have the ego."” ArtistSpeakPersonalityEgoYeahVery GoodNurturingEmpathetic Author:Steve Lillywhite
“Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out one before the other. Indeed we speak of past lives because you are used to the time sequence concept... You have dominant egos, all part of an inner identity, dominant in various existences. But the separate existences exist simultaneously. Only the egos involved make the time distinction... a thousand years in your past or in your future - all exist now.” ThinkingYearsIdeasPastUsedSpeakHealingExistenceIdentityInvolvedThousandEgoConceptsVariousObsessedDistinctionOur FutureReincarnationThousand YearsDominantOur PastYour FutureSequenceYour PastPast LifePast PresentPast Present And Future Author:Jane Roberts
“Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'” FeelsDoeSpeakPlayerEgoInstantOpponentsCrumblingFischer Author:George Steiner
“...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.” WorldStatesFormSpeakHeavenShareStageEgoDegreesEatingHighestRegardUnityChaosBreathingFixedDelusionPhenomenonInheritanceImperativesFoldsDetachedManifold Book:Steppenwolf Source: Steppenwolf
“The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.” InspirationalTryingSpeakBlackWatchesCuttingBasketballEgoCourtEdgesCharacteristicsCollectionsCutting EdgeAlter EgoBasketball Court Author:Kobe Bryant
“The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.” IfsMindDifferentSelfWisdomSpeakUnderstandingConsciousnessSourceEgoIllusionConsciousContrastTrue SelfPower Of Love Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth
“Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.” KnowsFeelsMindHeartMomentsFeelingsBeautifulSpiritualityBeliefSpeakForgetMysteryEgoManifestationSunsetEntityForget YouSeparatenessBeautiful Sunset Author:Rajneesh
“Fight against your ego with the four swords of training: eat little, sleep little, speak little, and be patient when people harm you... Then the ego will walk the paths of obedience, like a fleeing horseman in the field of battle.” PeopleLittlesWisdomFightingSpeakSleepWalksPathFourFieldsBattleEgoTrainingPatientHarmObedienceIslamicBe PatientFleeingHorsemenNafs Author:Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi
“Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: "Thou art That", "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached!"” LongArtIdeasBodySpeakGoalPerfectEgoMessagesEndureAriseAwakeFearlessnessAtman Book:Awakened India Source: Awakened India
“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.” SelfSeemsHappensSpeakSidesTermConsciousnessPsychologySubjectsObjectsEgoMovedFactorsEvolveUnconsciousSurroundSuitableExponents Author:Carl Jung
“What keeps you motivated? The challenge of putting all the elements of a team together and seeing how you do and what you become is the thing that I still enjoy. I also enjoy the associations and relationships with the players and other coaches - to be in the arena, so to speak. I still enjoy that. I'm also at the point, though, that if we're not doing well - it's tough enough as it is - that I'm not going to be hanging on just to be hanging on. Because it's not anything I need from an ego standpoint or anything else. I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing.” IfsNeedsWellsStillsEnoughTogetherSpeakEnjoyChallengesJusticePlayerSeeingTeamEgoElementsToughCoachesMotivatedAssociationArenaStandpointHanging OnKeep You Motivated Author:LaVell Edwards
“I am not here for me I am not here to promote my ego I am here to serve the Great Spirit To be a voice for those afraid to speak To be movement for those who are stuck I am here to reveal a mystery To learn something new about myself” SpiritSpeakVoiceMysteryMovementEgoStuckSomething NewGreat Spirit Author:Holly Near
“Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.” NeedsMindFeelingsSpeakViewsAcceptingPositionEgoTelling The TruthWillingnessDefeatedThreatenedWhatever It TakesDemonstratingRelinquishingSpeak Your MindRelinquishing Control Author:Iyanla Vanzant