“I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.” WayLooksKindI CanDoneSawsFashionIntegrityEgoModelsLosingBe Kind Author:Damien Hirst
“You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.” UniverseSidesPoetEgoModelsGet AwayWhere You AreEquationsVictorian Author:Peter Wolf
“It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to 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 - particularly if you're doing dressage.” IfsKnowsWayWantWellsMovingKnow HowEffectsEgoModelsYogaHorseVery GoodRidingDressage Author:Edie Campbell
“They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that won't accept students who are writing genre fiction - what an institutional ego!” IfsWorldWritingFictionAcceptingTeachingChangedStudentsEgoModelsConceptsProgramGenreFinding YourselfFilmmakingPublishingAcademyAntiquityAdjusting Author:Tod Goldberg
“One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.” WorldInterestingBrainEgoModelsDirectOneselfPhilosopherContactCharacteristicsInternalsRealisticTunnelsRobustFinnish Author:Thomas Metzinger
“The guy behind the counter had been seriously adorable. Model-level cute. She had mentioned that, and Allan, her then boyfriend, hadn't taken it well. That's when she'd learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.” WellsGuyLevelsCommonBehindsTakenEgoModelsFruitMalesCuteAdorableBruisedForsakenMale Ego Book:Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven Source: Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven
“But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.” IfsNeedsShouldHumansStillsAbleEarthLeftExistenceLandCreationEgoModelsRemainsPressesKillingCompromiseLiberationFootstepsHuman ExistenceBlundersConcessionsSecond BestOptimum Author:Thomas Ligotti
“We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.” WayLooksHeartBodySufferingCasesHigherEgoSurvivalModelsAssumingFortuneSakeExecutivesStarvationOverweightVogueHeart AttackPrecedenceAnorexics Book:What It Is Like To Go To War Source: What It Is Like To Go To War