It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first.
The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.
You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.
Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.
I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?
By repeating sounds over and over again, I lose sense of time, space, and ego, and I get to just vibrate.
You don't want to vilify your ego.
If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.
I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.
