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Definition of Ego

Ego

The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.

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Ego Quotations

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud

Where id was, there ego shall be.
Sigmund Freud

The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Colin Powell

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
Whitney Houston

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Alan Watts

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
Bill Maher

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
Robert H. Schuller

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
James Joyce

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
Martin Heidegger

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
Mike Krzyzewski

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand

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

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.
Chris Brown

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
Will Durant

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
Walter Cronkite

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Pat Riley

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
Theodor Adorno

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
Jim Carrey

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
Joss Whedon

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Max Planck

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.
Dwayne Johnson

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
Pat Brown

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
Michael Hutchence

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