Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ram Dass

At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.

Cassandra Clare

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

Mindy Kaling

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more.

Mary Lou Retton

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

Muhammad Iqbal

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

H. L. Mencken

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.

Nelson DeMille

...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

Glenn Close

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

Jim Butcher

A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

Ken Wilber

Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.

Ken Blanchard

Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.

Kenny Smith

Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.

Ernst Mach

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

Clint Hurdle

Some times the male ego gets in the way of a lot of things.

Dr. John

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

I've played too long to let my ego get in the way, or my pride -- to say, 'I have to play shortstop' or something like that. You know what? I played 10 years at shortstop. Can I still play there? Yeah. But we have a good shortstop here.

James O'Shaughnessy

The model never varies. It never has an ego problem; it never has a fight with its spouse; it never wants to prove that it's right. The model is never hung-over after a night of partying -- it just does the same thing, time and time again. Very boring, very profitable.

A lot of other places I've worked at are incredibly ego-driven.

All of our egos were flushed down the toilet after that game. We were knocked down from riding that high horse.

They play to each other's strengths. They play with an unselfish spirit, and they play to win without any ego.

Herman Melville

I would prefer not to.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.

Jaime Lerner

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

Iyanla Vanzant

The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.

Iyanla Vanzant

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

Iyanla Vanzant

The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Evan Esar

Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.

Jada Pinkett Smith

You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.

Christine Feehan

Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.