"I think, honestly, that ego makes you most vulnerable. When you are in humility you are much more comfortable, open and okay with BEING vulnerable, whereas the ego is the protecter, and even though you think you're protecting, I think you are more vulnerable if you're in ego."

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Source : "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

Mike Ness

#Humility Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ego Quotes

“My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.”
“I refuse to be silenced.”
“The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.”
“If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire.”
“What should I do? The person I really like...I told him not to play with bad people. But he won't listen. Really, what should I do?”
“Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.”
“When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet - ten or 15 years ago - I came up with this concept of "the 5 Cs." Services needed to have content, context, community, commerce, and connectivity. After that, when I was trying to think of what the key management principles were to build into the culture, I started talking about the Ps. The P's were things like passion, perseverance, perspective and people. I think the people aspect is really the most important one.”
“Right is right, even if no one else does it.”

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