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ego
«The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.»
«The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.»
«We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
| Keywords:
adult, definitive, dictatorship, dictatorships, ego, flock, High Church, high tide, latest, mature, novelties, relativism, The Church, tides, trending, trends, withstand, withstood
«There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.»
Author: Thom Yorke
(Musician)
| Keywords:
boring, drinking, ego, expecting, incoherent, massive, obnoxious, on the road, pointless, uncreative
«Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
accumulations, ambition, ego, material, middle, middle age, period, possessions, shedding, shell, shells
«The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
arrogance, burning, burning in, ego, excessive, greed, the fire
«The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
Buddha, compassion, ego, foundation, number one, persistence, practicing, teachings, the Buddha, The Foundation, wipe, wiped out, wipes, wipe out, wiping
«The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.»