Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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

Mitch Kupchak

I don't see any ego. It's like, 'Mitch, what do you need me to do?' He'll go anywhere. He's always been a worker, so I'm not surprised, but a lot of guys would not have taken that approach. He loves to contribute, and he loves to work.

Max Mayfield

I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation, ... New Orleans is never going to be the same.

Evan Esar

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

Ivana Trump

Show me success without ego!

Jack McDevitt

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

Michael Clarke

His interest is in his ego not getting in the way of choices.

Daryl Hall

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

He's really fun to be around, plus he has no ego.

J. D. Salinger

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

J. D. Salinger

This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

It's his team and I love being a part of it. I do what I do, which is go out every night and try to do my best. If I'm not scoring I'm doing other things. There's no egos here. All sports are like that. He's the superstar and deservedly so.

Jonathan Ames

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... [that] gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

Pankaj Mishra

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.

Martin Buber

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

Martin Buber

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.

Quentin Crisp

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

Ellen Hopkins

How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.

Linus Torvalds

I have an ego the size of a small planet

Penelope Keith

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

Pema Chodron

Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

Pema Chodron

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

Pema Chodron

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

Haruki Murakami

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

Hanan Ashrawi

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

John Keats

Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

Kanye West

I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach.

Kanye West

The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build.

Nelson DeMille

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

Joe Namath

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

Martin Heidegger

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.