Ego Quotes - page 7

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress. (Ayn Rand)
I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point. View quote
Jim Butcher
Have you noticed that there are some people, who when they lose something, their first reaction is that it had to be stolen? First thing- "Hey! It was stolen!" It's an ego defense. They can't stand the fact that they might have been stupid enough to have lost something. And even if it's something that anyone would really want that much. "Hey! Who stole my collection of used bandages?! And they also got away with my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine!" View quote
George Carlin
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. View quote
Theodor Adorno
At the very moment when my ego is unprooted [uprooted? ] and freed of intellectual activities and values, the realization of what is still unknown and uncreated, the silent 'non-form' unity emerges, appearing as childish schizophrenia. The indefinable beginning takes form. View quote
Karel Appel
The sublimity of color in Hodgkin's pictures can be thought of as, first of all, expressive of gratitude - for the world that resists and survives the ego and its discontents. View quote
Susan Sontag
The ego involved in responsibility is me and no one else, me with whom one whould have liked to pair up a sister soul, from whom one would have substitution and sacrifice. View quote
Emmanuel Levinas
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. View quote
Jean Arp
Where Ego is, Id must spring forth. View quote
Cornelius Castoriadis
You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise. View quote
Leonard Nimoy
The editor of this catalog asked me to make a statement about my work. I don't have much to write: - Be a child of your age. - Be naturalistic against your own ego. - Be matter-of- fact toward your inner visions - My love is dedicated to the four great masters of masculine mysticism: Mäleskirchener ([church-painters / muralists, Grünewald, Breughel [both famous painters in the late Middle Ages, ed. ] and Van Gogh. (Max Beckmann)
The Ego is the great veiled mystery of the world... I believe in it and in its eternal, immutable form. Its path is, in some strange and peculiar manner, our path. And for this reason I am immersed in the phenomenon of the Individual, the so-called whole Individual, and I try in every way to explain and present it. What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. View quote
Max Beckmann
All important things in art since Ur of the Chaldea's, since Tel Halaf and Crete, have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being. Self-realization is the urge of all objective spirits. It is this Ego for which I am searching in my life and in my art. Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement, for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our Ego that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. View quote
Max Beckmann
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. View quote
Geoffrey Rush
Mr. LaLanne said he performed his exercises until he experienced "muscle fatigue,” lifting weights until it was impossible for him to continue. It produced results and, as he put it, "the ego in me” made the effort worthwhile. View quote
Jack LaLanne
The Cubists, to be objective, restrict themselves to considering things by turning around them, to produce their geometric writing. So they remain at a stage of intelligence which sees everything and feels nothing, which brings everything to a standstill in order to describe everything. We Futurists are trying, on the contrary, with the power of intuition, to place ourselves at the very center of things, in such a way that our ego forms with their own uniqueness a single complex. We thus give plastic planes a plastic expansion in space, obtaining this feeling of something in perpetual motion which is peculiar to everything living. View quote
Carlo Carrà
The artist's will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion.... His wilfulness may only be ego.... The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course. View quote
Sol LeWitt
In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego. View quote
Michael Crichton
What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. (Raymond Chandler)
Writer's block is only a failure of the ego. View quote
Norman Mailer
When one is short, one should stand on a box to get a better view. The Twin Towers is [sic] to our ego what the box is to the shorties. View quote
Mahathir bin Mohamad
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. It is well no doubt, to reflect on how much one owes to others. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith