Ego Quotes - Page 54

They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that won't accept students who are writing genre fiction - what an institutional ego!

A willingness to drop your ego and let yourself look foolish. You almost have to enjoy looking vulnerable. You'd be surprised how many people don't want to do that.

There aren't a lot of great parts out there that are interesting for people in my category.

To go to San Diego is everything. It's literally everything. It's the ultimate dream. It's the big one.

The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.

The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.

While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products.

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.

A lot of times people are too ego caught up where they made the decision and "We're going to stick with it" and then I had to suffer.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

A realized being would not be making any fresh karma because karma is very much connected to the ego but would still be receiving the results of past karma.

If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as unreal?" the Swami was asked. "Yes", answered the Swami. "And what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and I have added to this is, that the Many and the One are the same Reality, perceived by the same mind at different times and in different attitudes.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff