Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Your body is made of two things: your will to do, your ego, and the physical form you have received from the… — Osho Copy Share Image
Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“External relationships seem to have been emptied by a massive withdrawal of the real libidinal self. Effective mental activity has disappeared into… — Harry Guntrip Copy Share Image
Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I've been working in Hollywood for a long time now in many different aspects in front of the camera, behind the camera,… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get… — Bob Davids Copy Share Image
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
As long as the mind and ego control the direction of creating, there will always be problems in the outer world, for… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
“Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
At a certain age, children are total Id - they're anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Normally we empower our demons by believing they are real and strong in themselves and have the power to destroy us. As… — Tsultrim Allione Copy Share Image
Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man… — Jodie Marsh Copy Share Image
The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
To all those whose progress remains hampered by ego-related distractions, let humility - the spiritual cornerstone upon which Karate rests - serve… — Matsumura Sokon Copy Share Image
“God does remain in a state of witnessing (sakshibhav), but that is a worldly God. Worldly God means witnessing through ‘egoism’. If… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The man who is egoless is the man who has no ideals. Let this be the criterion, and you have stumbled upon… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When Donald Trump becomes president, he'll fly on a jumbo jet rebadged Hair Force One. It will be oversized to contain his… — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The most important thing is being genuine, and real, and not getting caught up in the "Star-Ness" of it. You don't want… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
