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“A man’s capable of understanding anything – how the ether vibrates, and what’s going on in the sun – but how any other man can blow his nose differently from him, that he’s incapable of understanding.”
Ivan Turgenev
Mind
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Ego
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Understanding
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Complexity
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Irony
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“For a man may understand the precipitation of ether, and be au fait with what is taking place in the sun, yet, confront him with the fact that another man blows his nose differently from the manner in which he blows his own, and at once that man will become lost in perplexity.”
Ivan Turgenev
Perception
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Ego
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Humanity
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Complexity
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Irony
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“It’s amazing how man still believes in words. For example, if you call him a fool and don’t beat him, he’ll be wretched. Call him a genius and don’t give him any money – he’ll be quite satisfied.”
Ivan Turgenev
Words
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Perception
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Ego
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Psychology
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Influence
4.
“The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.”
Guy Kawasaki
Popularity
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Ego
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Hypocrisy
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Resilience
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Humility
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“Ego is a bubble. Instead of bursting it and seeing what all lies outside, we invest most of our energy protecting it.”
Ankur Warikoo
Ego
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Humility
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Growth
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Awareness
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Energy
6.
“Don't feed your ego. Feed your curiosity.”
Ankur Warikoo
Ego
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Curiosity
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Humility
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Growth
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Learning
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“We think that if we simplify things, we will lose our importance.”
Ankur Warikoo
Simplicity
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Importance
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Ego
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Clarity
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Value
8.
“The biggest roadblock to learning is ego!”
Ankur Warikoo
Ego
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Learning
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Humility
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Growth
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Self-awareness
9.
“I learned a long time ago that exercising your ego in public is definitely not the way to build an effective organization.”
Sam Walton
Ego
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Organization
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Leadership
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Humility
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Effectiveness
10.
“It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.”
Sam Walton
Humility
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Media
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Ego
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Focus
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Health
11.
“There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.”
Jimmy Carter
Politics
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Power
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Leadership
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Ego
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Belief
12.
“All troubles come to an end when the ego dies.”
Ramakrishna
Ego
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Troubles
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End
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Freedom
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Liberation
13.
“The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as “I am such an important man” or “I am so and so.” Level the mound of “I” to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.”
Ramakrishna
Ego
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Waves
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Ganges
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Devotion
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Humility
14.
“The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.”
Ramakrishna
Vanity
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Saint
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Ego
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Pride
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Humility
15.
“The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.”
Ramakrishna
Sun
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Light
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Ego
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Clouds
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God
16.
“The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.”
Ramakrishna
Ego
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Tree
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Growth
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Awareness
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Persistence
17.
“Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.”
Ramakrishna
Spirituality
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Humility
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Ego
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Growth
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Wisdom
18.
“One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.”
Ramakrishna
Humility
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Knowledge
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Wisdom
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Ego
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Enlightenment
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“It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.”
Ramakrishna
Ego
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Spiritual Growth
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Wisdom
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Humility
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Enlightenment
20.
“Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.”
Ramakrishna
Self-Realization
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Ego
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Consciousness
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Enlightenment
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Wisdom
21.
“God cannot be realized if there is the slightest trace of pride.”
Ramakrishna
Humility
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God
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Realization
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Pride
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Ego
22.
“As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.”
Ramakrishna
Ego
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Knowledge
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Liberation
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Transformation
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Wisdom
23.
“It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Self
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Ego
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Identity
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Awareness
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Liberation
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“It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.”
Plutarch
Ego
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Virtue
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Humility
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Admiration
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Superiority
25.
“He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.”
Plutarch
Humility
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Ego
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Recognition
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Pride
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Expectation
26.
“Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one’s own praises.”
Plutarch
Ego
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Praise
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Vanity
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Self-deception
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Perception
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“It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.”
Plutarch
Envy
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Superiority
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Ego
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Deception
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Justification
28.
“Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.”
Plutarch
Praise
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Ego
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Merit
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Vanity
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Character
29.
“Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.”
Plutarch
Self-Deception
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Flattery
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Ego
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Truth
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Illusion
30.
“When you can release on your ego long enough to view your perceptions as incomplete or misleading, it gives you the freedom to imagine new and potentially more useful ways of looking at the world.”
Scott Adams
Ego
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Perception
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Perspective
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Growth
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Mindset
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