Ego Quotes - Page 32

Intelligence is a moral category.

As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.

Washington is dangerously positioned between two Canadas, Canada Canada and California's Canada, Oregon.

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.