“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
“I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck". My motives and values are very different.” DifferentSelfHelpingValuesOpinionSucceedEgoEntrepreneurInvestingSatisfactionDrivenFactorsMotiveServingBucksSelf Serving Author:Ron Conway
“As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.” SpiritualLife IsSpiritualityGoalPracticeFailingEvolutionSucceedEgoConcernedEndeavorSpiritual LifeSuccess Or Failure Author:Andrew Cohen
“The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.” LongHardWholeRealityPleasurePrinciplesSucceedEgoOvercomingMethodInstinctStartingEducatePersistOrganismsEmployed Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.” IfsStillsHandsEarthLastsPastForceCommonEffortStruggleBalanceSucceedEgoShotsDeterminationIntentionConvictionIf I CouldContradictionGravityNothingnessArrowsFutilityInevitabilityDetermination To Succeed Book:Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940 Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940
“From now on, change will be the constant. The individuals best prepared to succeed are those who can learn, modify, and grow, regardless of age, experience, or ego.” AgeIndividualGrowsChangeSucceedEgoConstantPrepared Author:Danny Goodman
“The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no telling what ego wants because our desire doesn't have any limit; therefore, its demands continually increase.” WantLittlesDesireSuccessfulKingsSucceedDemandLimitsEgoUniversalIncreaseCompetitionSatisfied Author:Gelek Rimpoche
“Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it’s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it’s going to fail.” IfsSelfSeemsMightOrderFailingMysterySucceedEgoUniversalDeeperDrivenMemoirGenreUniversal Truth Author:Nick Flynn