“Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.”
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Walter Bagehot 42
British journalist, businessman, and essayist 1826–1877Related quotes
“Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.”
“Do not kill your ego and do not let your ego to kill you. Control your ego and rule over it.”
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
Erika Jayne interview to E! News https://www.eonline.com/news/1021432/real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-erika-jayne-dishes-on-porn-her-career-and-biggest-fears (2019)
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
It is very difficult to see your peers rising in status and you’re still sitting back working your way up because you won’t do certain things. You have to be true to yourself. As a performer, as a human being you have to be true to yourself, because once you compromise, you sell out.
Source: Interview with Morgan Brittany http://www.lifesupernatural.com/interview-with-morgan-brittany/
“Never do what people say, always do what your mind tells you.”
Original: Non fare mai ciò che dice la gente, fai sempre ciò che dice la tua mente.
Source: prevale.net
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
"The Summer Day"
New and Selected Poems (1992)
Variant: What will you do with your one precious, wild life?
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1