Best personality & ego Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.”

Persons Form Universe Ignorance Personality Ego Manifestation Separateness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but a few years ago I realized that I was so causative over how the interview went that I was no longer concerned over the effects of the interview.”

Feels Years Done Might Past Used Effects Missing Personality Ego Concerned Years Ago I Realized Interviews

Author:John Travolta

“Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.”

Feels Heart Self Body Joy Love Is Personality Ego Roots Surrender Mature Hegemony Mature Love

Book:Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life

Source: Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life

“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.”

People Way Giving Able Purpose Order Culture Understanding Growth Attitude Trouble Design Personality Ego Giving Up Conscious Planning Urges Rooted Utilitarian Inner Growth

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.”

Should Firsts Style Personality Ego

Author:Dewey Redman

“A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.”

Knows Personality Ego Dishes Neurosis Movie Sets

Author:Oscar Isaac

“It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.”

“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."”

Artist Speak Personality Ego Yeah Very Good Nurturing Empathetic

Author:Steve Lillywhite

“Anyone who's lived with companion cats or dogs knows that they are unique individuals with their own personalities. I think animals' secret to getting along is that they are not burdened by an ego.”

Thinking Knows Individual Animal Secret Dog Personality Ego Unique Cat Companion Getting Along Unique Individuals

Author:Jonathan Balcombe

“The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.”

Ifs Problem Existence Personality Ego Complexes Treated Dominant Intervention Constellations Tumors

Author:Terence McKenna

“The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness. We're all his dream, and our duty in life that God has assigned to us, that the universe has placed squarely in our laps, is to find out who we really are. "Gnothi seauton," as the Greeks used to say. "Know thyself." But to know thyself, if you trace it back, to the deeper and deeper levels, you discover that that self is not your body or your ego or your personality or your country or anything, that's just a sack of self-definitions that you carry around with you”

Ifs Knows Self Country Dream Body Used Universe Levels Consciousness Duty Personality Truth Is Ego Definitions Deeper Your Body Greek Lap Thyself Know Thyself

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.”

Ifs Want Kind Stills Able Personality Ego No Point

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.”

People Personality Ego Songwriters

Author:Cass McCombs

“This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.”

“If your own strong ego clashes with other strong egos, you not going to get anywhere. I studied psychology and learned about the many parts of us that we need to integrate so we don't walk around feeling disconnected: personality, soul, ego. If you do feel disconnected, you need to ask which part is feeling that way. Your ego is there to boost you up, if recognized and used correctly.”

Ifs Way Needs Feels Soul Feelings Used Asks Strong Walks Psychology Personality Ego Clash Integrating Boost Disconnected

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.”

People Believe Persons Doe Known Cases Conditions Personality Ego Disorder Narcissism Entitled Paranoid Narcissist Personality Disorders

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“I encourage people to have a daily spiritual practice; that's the best way to take care of yourself. If you have that daily practice, it means you're getting divine guidance, and you're not being guided by your ego or your personality.”

People Mean Care Spiritual Divine Personality Ego Take Care Guidance Spiritual Practice Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I believe that if one can understand one's false personality or ego, then they can develop self-awareness and the manifesting of that self-awareness is leadership. Such a leader sets up the mechanisms within which creativity can flourish, and managers turn this into innovations in the marketplace and society. But it's never as clear-cut as I'm making it sound. It's much more dynamic, chaotic and fascinating in the way it plays out. That's why people have to operate more from their inner essence; it's the other constant that copes with the legendary constant of change.”

People Believe I Believe Leader Creativity Personality Ego Innovation Manifest Chaotic Legendary

Author:Michael Ray

“Me and my bandmate having known each other and worked together for so long, the process between us is kind of effortless. We've both played in other bands and recorded things outside of Foxygen, but there's something about what happens between our personalities when we make music that works. Also, with it being just the two of us, we don't have the problems that other bands do. We don't have a bass player saying, "What about my parts?" We play all the instruments between us, and we don't really have much ego about that stuff.”

Kind Long Problem Together Player Personality Ego

Author:Jonathan Rado

“When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.”

Source: The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography

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