Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Chogyam Trungpa

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• The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Different
  • Important
  • May

• We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Long
  • Why
  • Change

• That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Problem
  • Head
  • Bald

• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Dark

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Problem
  • Best

• It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Problem
  • Pain
  • Hell

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • American
  • Fun
  • Single

• I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Smart

• After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Opinion
  • Learn
  • Doing

• This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Driving
  • Were

• I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Star
  • Forget
  • Ego

• I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Problem
  • Boxer
  • Blows

• Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Eyes
  • Challenge
  • Ego

• If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Know
  • Problem
  • Addiction

• We're just trying to make 'The Darkside' its own brand. It's Fat Joe, but it's 'The Darkside.' We come with 'Vol. 2,' make it crazier than 'Vol. 1.' By the time 'Vol. 3' come, we got a problem on our hands.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Problem

• I realized that I spent more time thinking about my problem clients than my great clients. I had to stop feeding the drama of the problem clients-and other problems in my life.

  

  Bonnie St. John
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Clients

• During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Irritate

• Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.'

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • America
  • Free

• Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Trust

• The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Problem
  • Ego
  • Spirituality