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“To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.”

Want Trying Successful Achieve Ego What You Want Backgrounds Being Successful Diplomatic

Author:Ken Adam

“one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.”

Three Money Successful Ego Letters Investing Deterrent Successful Investing

Book:The power of money dynamics

Source: The power of money dynamics

“The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.”

Way Children Reality Individual Space Successful Growing Plans Groups Awareness Identity Ego Accord Synthesis Space Time Life And Time Growing Children Group Identity

Book:Identity and the Life Cycle

Source: Identity and the Life Cycle

“There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.”

Needs Firsts Three Church Powerful Party Half Successful Letting Go Ego Being Successful Prisoner Splits Three Things Compulsion Ego Trip

Author:Richard Rohr

“There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.”

Problem Deals Successful Ego Males Successful Women Male Ego

Author:Sheila Johnson

“Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“I know Donald Trump quite well. We've never shared values, he and I. But I respected his ability to turn it around. So I respect somebody who can turn things around and be successful. I think the president's communication style is the most difficult thing because he actually does care, people who know him know he cares. But his style of communication, his combative approach, the elements of ego that are obviously there in all of us but seem to be more easy to see in the president sometimes than other people, get in the way of his capacity to lead, unfortunately.”

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Author:Marc Benioff

“I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.”

Men Needs Made Two Would Be Challenges Successful Ego Harry Potter Spiders Potters Turned Down Spider Man

Author:Steven Spielberg

“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”

Source: The Magus

“If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.”

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)

“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.”

Want Littles Desire Successful Kings Succeed Demand Limits Ego Universal Increase Competition Satisfied

Author:Gelek Rimpoche