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badly egotism ourselves rather speak talk
We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
business egomaniacs performing
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one. Dan Rather
ego kind bigs
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued. Alan Ball
dream ego grease
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there? Al Pacino
ego unmasking strategy
What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy. Chogyam Trungpa
spiritual thinking ego
Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism
views ego enlightenment
The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
mean cynical ego
As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.
teaching ego benefits
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
writing people fiction
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics. Will Self
elements explosive fictional historical history
What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights. Matthew Pearl
technology fiction mainstream
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us. Alaina Huffman
philosophy people fiction
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. Al Sharpton
real book fiction
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction. Akhil Sharma
growing-up play fiction
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.' Chris Carter
beautiful first-love fiction
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot. Chris Abani
book fiction narrative
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.
adequate fiction helping
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate. Chinua Achebe
blame canada choice fun innocuous people pick ridiculous targets
We're making fun of people who pick ridiculous targets to blame anything about what's going on in their lives, so Canada was just the perfect, ridiculous, innocuous choice for a target. Marc Shaiman
blame crowds excited expected sandwich spoiled
We're spoiled with the crowds we get here. We can't blame the crowd for us being dull, because we didn't give them much to get excited about. But I expected it. It was a sandwich game. Bill Self
against blame darn games great half level needed played playing rest shots stress teams three uptight
We're so uptight half the darn time. And you can't blame us. We're playing at a level where we had three big games against three great teams and we needed to play hard. We played hard; we didn't make shots. The shots will come. We can't stress here and think we're not going to make any more shots for the rest of our lives.
blame
When we blame, we give away our power.
barrel blame market misleading setting year
When we had $10 a barrel a year ago, it was the market that was making the determination, ... To blame 'big oil' on profiteering is a little misleading ... the market is setting the price, not U.S. 'big oil.' Frank Murkowski
blame small supposed switch
We were supposed to switch everything. We went small so that we could switch. I'll take the blame on this one; it was on me. John Salmons
blame game hurt keeping proud sync team
What hurt us is that we haven't had a game in 10 days. We were out of connection, and it showed. I blame myself for that. We were out of sync but were proud of keeping it close. We're a better team than this, and we know it.
blamed boost credit good helped quarter sales time
What has really helped the quarter is very good sales because of El Nino. El Nino, is blamed for many things, but this time it can take credit for the boost in sales. Daniel Barry
heart blame circumstances
You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart. Aiden Wilson Tozer