“You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.” NeedsGivingPersonsYoungIdentityEgoCreatingStructureConstructsNarcissistic Author:Richard Rohr
“I put a lot of effort in creating something fictional, yet very personal, because Shook is a defining part of me and my music: the Shook entity is much like the Batman or Superman comics characters. I like the idea that I can have this image that represents a part of me, but isn't really me, kind of like an alter ego.” KindI CanIdeasCharacterEffortEgoCreatingEntityDefiningCreating SomethingAlter Ego Author:Shook
“If you try to figure out how you will get what you want you will limit yourself to what your ego or conditioned mind can do. The key to creating what you want is to turn your desire or your goal over to your subconscious which is connected to the Universal Mind or Universal Subconscious and let it bring the goal to you and you to your goal.” IfsWantTryingMindDesireTurnsGoalCan DoFiguresKeysLimitsEgoCreatingUniversalConnectedWhat You WantSubconscious Author:Robert Anthony
“Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.” HumansForceEgoCreatingBoundariesHuman LifeOverwhelmingBreakthroughPsychedelicErosDissolving Author:Terence McKenna
“I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.” DoeJobsRocksEgoCreatingSellsBottomSellingMagazinesNot InterestedThoroughEgo Trip Author:Jack Kirby
“I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.” ThinkingMeanHas BeensMadeCharacterEgoCreatingAlbumsAlter EgoCreating Characters Author:David Bowie
“My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.” MenWorldWritingYearsBookWarMotherFoundStudyViolenceWrittenHe ManEgoCreatingNotesGreedFeministTensionPakistanCleaningTrunksCleaning UpLahore Author:Vandana Shiva
“We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.” ThinkingHumansMadeEnoughPastPoliticalSpaceCommonGenerationsHugeEgoCreatingErrorsAvailableAcknowledgeSentimentsSatisfyingMediocrityReignLowestNigeriaNew GenerationHuman PotentialCommon DenominatorLowest Common DenominatorSingle Mindedness Author:Wole Soyinka