Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

Rajneesh

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Rajneesh

"Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be. A wants to be B - the ego is created out of this very tension. How does the ego die? The ego dies by you accepting what you are. That you say, "I am fine as I am, where I am is good. I will remain just as existence keeps me. Its will is my will."

Rajneesh

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Rajneesh

You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain wealth in this world, then you try to attain wealth in that world. But you remain the same, and the mind and the functioning and the whole scheme remains the same: Attain! Reach! This is the ego trip. The achieving mind is the ego.

Rajneesh

Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a beggar who has nothing else you will find the same ego as you will find in Alexander the Great, because desiring is the same. Alexander the Great may have much money and much power, that does not matter; he is still desiring. The beggar may not have anything, but he is also desiring.

Michael Hutchence

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining

Randy Jackson

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

Randy Newman

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

Emraan Hashmi

I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.

Jacque Fresco

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.

Plautus

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

Plautus

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate. [Lat., Bono ingenio me esse ornatam, quam auto multo mavolo. Aurum fortuna invenitur, natura ingenium donum. Bonam ego, quam beatam me esse nimio dici mavolo.

Martin Parr

I am what I photograph.

James Joyce

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

James Redfield

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

Johnny Carson

I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

Nora Roberts

Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.

You watch them up close, they understand each other's strengths. There's no ego there. If there was an ego, it wouldn't work.

Eric Idle

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

Marianne Moore

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Max Planck

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Max Lucado

Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

Maynard James Keenan

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

Maynard James Keenan

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

Maya Angelou

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

Norman Cousins

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

Norma Shearer

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

Nolan Bushnell

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

Gabriel Macht

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

Linus Torvalds

I have an ego the size of a small planet

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.

John Keats

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