Ego Quotes - Page 36

The people who want to be recognized as the greatest traders are probably not the greatest traders. Egos get in the way of the process. In my opinion, you never want to be the largest player in the pit.

Gentlemen, start your egos!

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse, even with the certainty of a UK referendum following the negotiation, it is clear that there was no appetite amongst European leaders for anything more than a few minor concessions.

Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.

The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious ego, which then transforms the outer stimuli into a psychological experience.

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

I fed my ego, but not my soul.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

I think it's just recognizing that who you are is not any of the stuff that you have. It's not any of the things of the ego. Coming to that awareness is a very hard thing for most people to do - but that's an excuse. If you tell yourself it's too hard, then you won't take it on. But right now, for most people, it's almost an impossibility to do so, because they're so attached to "I am what I have"; "I am what I do"; "I am what my reputation is"; or "I am all of this material stuff."

There is always a chance [for negotiations with Japan], or else it makes no sense to talk. How great is it? Right now, it is difficult for me to say, because this will depend, among other things, on the flexibility of our partners.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.

When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens.

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.