“There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.” MindHas BeensMightPastDesireEnergyWishDifficultWorryAliveAmountEgoHappeningsRelationFrustratedIdleFrozenMight Have BeenDifficult ThingsWhen Things Go Wrong Author:Meher Baba
“I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.” PeopleThinkingCertainHateBeliefDifficultViewsRepublicanEgoDemocratConservativeCompetitiveness Author:Mike Tyson
“Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.” SoulEndsFeelingsMightSpiritDifficultConsciousnessHigherPureEgoConsciousFunctionInfiniteStructureSensesPreservesSublimeReducingAbolishImmediacy Author:Kenny Smith
“It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers.” DifficultHugeEgoIslamFollowersRidiculeInventorNeedlesMuhammadMadmenBalloonsNarcissistPsychopathBrainlessMegalomaniacs Author:Ali Sina
“When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could do something exciting there.” WantOpportunityDifficultMy OwnEgoProjectsExcitingWingsHistoricalAcceptedInstanceMuseumsPublication Author:I. M. Pei
“One of the things that is always difficult about a collaboration is that you don't necessarily find the same thing funny. And so the challenge becomes, how do you tell the other person that you don't think something's funny? The best collaborations tend to be when you are willing to be told that. But there's also ego involved, and so there's a lot of frustration in knowing that you're writing something, and the other person, on some level, needs to think that it's funny.” ThinkingNeedsWritingPersonsDifficultChallengesLevelsKnowingWillingInvolvedEgoFrustrationCollaboration Author:Michael Showalter
“The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).” IfsWayNeedsWould BeIndividualDifficultResultsCareersTeamAchieveBuildingDevelopmentEgoDirectRecognitionEtcAgendasDivisionHierarchyTeam BuildingAlignmentCareer DevelopmentOrganizationalConfidentiality Author:Patrick Lencioni
“I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.” MadeMatterCareDifficultNumbersEgoShameDisappointedNo One CaresBeing Disappointed Author:Christopher Walken
“Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.” HardUseHappensDifficultTermEmotionalEgoWeaknessThings HappenArtisticConfrontingScientologyLetting Things Happen Author:Annie E. Clark
“Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.” WorldMindDifficultStruggleThis WorldEgoDominance Author:Marianne Williamson
“I find my own pain and others' difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they'll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it's a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.” IfsWayWantTryingPainCausesDifficultMy OwnStruggleEgoHarmCompassionateTolerate Author:Danny Boyle
“Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.” WantHumansTurnsDifficultStruggleRiskEgoAmbitionRadicalVulnerabilityBoredomLure Author:C.E. Morgan
“For me, it's never been an ego situation where I have been "I'm the boss; expletive you." It's always been a situation where someone comes to me and says "I can't tolerate working with you anymore" and I would admit sometimes I wouldn't blame them for that. But I also sometimes think I'm not that difficult to figure out. I don't really know what has driven people to be so angry and bitter - people like my old keyboard player Pogo, who I've known for such a long time. I feel bad for him, but there are grievances with everything.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsLongHas BeensI CanSometimesDifficultSituationKnownPlayerFiguresEgoLong TimeBlameAngryDrivenBitterBossTolerateKeyboardsGrievanceExpletivesKeyboard PlayersBitter People Author:Marilyn Manson
“Artists are all giving so much of ourselves to the work and the people and the press and the media and Twitter and all that now. For me, being able to create from a genuine place is really difficult lately because there's so much going on all the time, but when all that stuff gets quiet, you can explore your ideas without any ego or mental chatter.” PeopleGivingArtistDifficultQuietEgo Author:Flying Lotus
“It's very good for you, riding. Every model is like, "I do yoga." I find horses have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move. So you have to use your body to help this horse do incredibly difficult movements that don't come naturally to it. And if something goes wrong, it's not the horse's fault; it's always your fault. So you have to be quite levelheaded. And then the whole nature aspect of it is very calming.” HelpingMovingDifficultEgoYogaHorseVery GoodCalming Author:Edie Campbell
“I know Donald Trump quite well. We've never shared values, he and I. But I respected his ability to turn it around. So I respect somebody who can turn things around and be successful. I think the president's communication style is the most difficult thing because he actually does care, people who know him know he cares. But his style of communication, his combative approach, the elements of ego that are obviously there in all of us but seem to be more easy to see in the president sometimes than other people, get in the way of his capacity to lead, unfortunately.” PeopleThinkingSometimesCareValuesEasyDifficultPresidentAbilitySuccessfulStyleCommunicationEgoBeing Successful Author:Marc Benioff
“Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.” ThinkingFeelingsDifficultWomenAcceptingFeminismEgoIndependentComplexesMalesClassicFake PeopleBeing A WomanFeatsCambridge Author:Sylvia Plath
“Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.” SeemsDifficultEgo Author:Orson Scott Card
“With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.” IfsSufferingDifficultFoolEgoReputationTemperament Author:Glenn Close
“This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.” IfsMenDifficultTeachHellLove YouEgoScriptureBetrayedDifficult ThingsNotableAvoidanceCowardlySeveritySinfulness Author:Matt Chandler
“That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the ages - pious egoists they have been. They have made their ego even more decorated; it has taken the color of religion and holiness. Your ego is better than the ego of a saint; your ego is better, far better - because your ego is very gross, and the gross ego can be understood and dropped more easily than the subtle. The subtle ego goes on playing such games that it is very difficult. One will need absolute awareness to watch it.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensMadeStoriesAgeGamesDifficultReligiousLevelsWatchesTakenAwarenessColorGoes OnEgoUnderstoodAbsolutesSaintHolinessSubtleGrossPious Author:Rajneesh
“In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because of this anti attitude, ego never becomes strong, never comes to a point of integration from where it can be thrown. It is never ripe. So in the East it is very difficult to dissolve the ego, almost impossible.” StrongDifficultAttitudeImpossibleEgoEastThrownIntegrationRipe Author:Rajneesh
“But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the problem he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker. This is the paradox - in the West ego is taught, in the East egolessness is taught. But in the West it is easy to dissolve the ego, in the East it is very difficult.” ProblemEasyDifficultUnderstandingTaughtEgoWestWesternEastParadoxEasternSeekers Author:Rajneesh
“If you approach a difficult problem without struggle, your ego will at first try to take charge from years of habit. Do the minimum and stand back. Solutions incubate at a deep level, not at the speed demanded by your mind. Take a break and come back the next day. Allow the answers to arise from your center, even if it takes a while. However much you have to retrain yourself in this practice of Least Effort, the ability to come from your center is worth the highest price anyone could pay.” IfsTryingYearsMindFirstsProblemNextDifficultAbilityAnswersLevelsEffortPayBreakPracticeStruggleHabitEgoApproachHighestSolutionsSpeedAriseMinimumNext DayDifficult Problems Author:Deepak Chopra