It is your willpower, or ego, a subject which will be explored in more detail below.
It's also common for people to create an avatar who is the opposite of them, a virtual alter ego.
Jimmy Durante (1893 - 1980) If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego.
Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007 Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Our ego is temporarily switched off or at least made to be quiet for a bit, and we start to see the real world as it should be.
Lord Falkland (1610 - 1643) Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead.
Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
"There's ego in academia—even compared to show business.
Help Someone Else Helping others takes the focus off our own ego and needs, and helps channel our energy into creating a better world for others.
Purposely impressing people is an act that brings nothing but a momentary ego boost.
As soon as you start this, you fall into a trap of ego, a grasping at the temporal, fleeting aspects of reality.
