“Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.” IfsWritingBelieveWellsUseMightEnergyOpinionIdentityPureEgoBelieve In YouWillpower Author:William Zinsser
“In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.” IfsWayBelieveTwoDifferentCertainTypeEgoThreatDuesInsecurityTwo WaysInsecurity And Fear Author:Radhanath Swami
“If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.” IfsNeedsBelieveStuffEgoExtrasImpressIf You BelieveBest Work Author:Keith Johnstone
“I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveReasonEarthCasesEgoEgocentric Author:Art Buchwald
“For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.” MenBelieveBeliefWomenRealizingAttentionBalanceEgoEssentialsEnlightenmentSuperiorsPermit Author:Frederick Lenz
“Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It’s simply good common sense. After all, you’re the only person who’s with you 24/7, until you draw your last breath.” PeopleBelievePersonsLastsLife IsCommonKeysEgoDrawsBreathsCommon SenseBad Things Author:Lauren Mackler
“In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out.” MenGivingBelieveMayLightCertainResultsCasesBirthEgoSightBlindMiseryConfusionOperationsProjectionMundaneMadmenDisorientation Author:R. D. Laing