Ego Quotes - Page 20

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon?

Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.

"Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be. A wants to be B - the ego is created out of this very tension. How does the ego die? The ego dies by you accepting what you are. That you say, "I am fine as I am, where I am is good. I will remain just as existence keeps me. Its will is my will."

You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know.

Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. What's in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it.