Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
We're an improv group and a sketch comedy group called the Tenderloins, that's our alter ego. — James Murray Copy Share Image
“How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
When you go to a movie with so many stars [like The Expendables 3], you don't know what you're going to find,… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
I think if you feel weird and self-conscious about that kind of stuff - which happened to me at some points -… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of an ego is not to see something, but is to be something. — Allama Iqbal Copy Share Image
It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
I became a master of disguise and could play the straight man down to a tee, sometimes over-compensating by getting into fights… — Gareth Thomas Copy Share Image
Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying! — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
