Ego Quotes - Page 53

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.

When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

It is clear to us that we will have to become more involved in our neighboring regions so that the migration pressures aren't so high there. Of course the budget negotiations will be difficult, as they always are.

Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.

Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

So many of us have separated ourselves from our source and have lived on ego consciousness.

When you are in-spirit (inspired) you have no need for the ego.

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money - not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' [the instructor replied,] 'it's not relevant to men.'

When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.

We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.

i happen to enjoy categorization.

one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.

I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.

Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."

What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe.

Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.