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I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

David O. Russell

Experience

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

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.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

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!

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

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

Colin Powell

Ego

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

Ego

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

Colin Powell

Ego

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Max Planck

Consciousness

Ego

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

Michael Pitt

Actors

Ego

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Leonard Nimoy

Ego

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Bill Moyers

Ego

For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines.