Zitat des Tages über Egoismus / Egotism:
Mastery passes often for egotism.
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
