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“Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.”

People Thinking Trying Fall Ego Sells Falling Down

Author:Edward Ruscha

“Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.”

Trying Energy Inspire Buddhism Balance Ego Aids Manipulate Tripping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.”

Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“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

“Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.”

Trying Ego Faults Naked Veils Pathetic Starks Miscalculations

Book:The cart and the horse

Source: The cart and the horse

“Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?”

Ifs Trying Effort Meditation Ego Conscious

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.”

Trying Self Spiritual Ego Unhappiness

Author:Lester Levenson

“You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.”

Trying Ego Criticism Intellect

Author:Mike Brearley

“Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.”

Trying Art Ego Bones Core

Author:Kay WalkingStick

“The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.”

Way Trying Said Ideas Whole Simple Week Pride Prove Ego Six Size Yesterday Objectives Broke Baths Marketplace Simple Ways Whittling Excessive Pride

Author:William O'Neil