Ego Trap Quotes

#1. We all know people who become strongly identified with, and attached to, their intelligence. It can become a big ego trap, harmful to oneself or others. Intelligence can also be a great blessing, providing invaluable clarity.

Joseph Goldstein

#2. I know what it is! We've arrived at the West Coast! We're all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody's in, this hyped-up, fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country.

Robert M. Pirsig

#3. The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

Erich Fromm

#4. I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

Mark Harmon

#5. The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Jacques Derrida

#7. I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.

Terry Tempest Williams

#8. Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness" is the real reason you find it hard to get started

Robert M. Pirsig

#9. No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people

Clarence Darrow

#10. A man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#11. Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

Kimberly Elise

#13. Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

Robert Altman

#14. Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

Sharyn McCrumb

#15. A lightning before death:

William Shakespeare

#16. Sin stared at him as he chewed, cream smeared across his mouth and smudged on the other side of it. It shouldn't have been possible to glare and eat like a child at the same time, but somehow Sin pulled it off.

Santino Hassell

#17. That you always need to look closer at people's lives. You can't just assume that just because they have beauty and wealth that they aren't touched by tragedy, heartbreak, cheating, and everything else that plagues us mere mortals. They put their pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us.

Annie Jocoby

#18. Where did this disposition come from? And what are our long-term goals for people - particularly children - with respect to motivation?

Alfie Kohn