Stephen Rodrick Quotes

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

Stephen Rodrick

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• Empire
• Megalomania

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• Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.

  

  Kate Williams
  • High
  • Empire
  • 19th-Century

• 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

• I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Money
  • Power
  • Political

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• 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

• 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
  • Self

• We do not need the empire to give us anything.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Need
  • Give
  • Empire

• Everything comes back to the horse, which is why I love it. You put your ego aside, and you concentrate on getting the best performance out of this creature.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Love
  • Why
  • Best

• You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Ego

• Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Ego

• The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Ego

• A lot of times you have very ego-driven actors and actresses that stay in their little world, and when you have a scene together, your worlds meet for a moment. But I don't think that makes for a very good cohesion.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • World
  • Good
  • Together

• The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.

  

  Jennifer Warnes
  • Job
  • Soul
  • Song

• I own and operate a ferocious ego.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • Ego

• The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

  

  James Gray
  • Movie
  • Ego
  • Blow

• I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Challenge
  • Ego

• The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is. Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)

  

  E. O. Wilson

• You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Power
  • True
  • Deep

• I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Work
  • School
  • Done

• The beauty of the country I have never succeeded in getting across to you or anyone who has not seen it for himself.

  

  Elsie Clews Parsons
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Succeeded

• To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

  

  Stephen Rodrick
  • Ego
  • Empire
  • Megalomania