#ego

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#close #ego #falls #goes #having

[...] Essence simply enjoys and commits attention and love to whatever is. In fact, committing attention to anything that is present results in enjoyment. The ego enjoys so little because it commits attention to what isn't present and to what it doesn't have, and suffers over that, instead of committing attention to whatever is. It loves its fantasies, dreams, and desires more than it loves reality. ↗

— Gina Lake

#essence #living-now #dreams

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#american #american people #barack #barack obama #category

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself. ↗

— Jason Priestley

#does #never #society #you #yourself

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category. ↗

— Sun Ra

#category #i #minister #philosopher #politician

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#developed #fantasy #films #i #i can

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#civic #content #dramatic #endorsement #expression

Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day. ↗

— Glenn Quinn

#believe #day #during #egomaniac #enough

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#between #chairman #coexistence #enter #entities

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other. ↗

— Karl Radek

#class #different #each #heterogeneous #independent