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People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
Bob Newhart
Success
Sense Of Humor
Humble
People
World
Humor
Sense
Realistic
More
Tend
Times
Egocentric
View
Less
Moments
Defeated
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
John C. Maxwell
Kind
Insecure
Sabotage
Leaders
Egocentric
Themselves
Who
Basically
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
Gary Hamel
Power
Employees
Cold
Tyrannical
Only
Blanket
Employee
Most
Policy
Policy Decisions
Real
Authority
Egocentric
Disenfranchised
Lack
Against
Decisions
Centralized
CEO
Engagement
Companies
Rebel
Even
Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.
Michael Eisner
You
Business
People
Strong
Partner
Think
Enough
Background
Given
Fact
Individual
Over
Years
Egocentric
Achievers
In Fact
Either
Business Partner
Less
Many
Publicity
The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.'
Alain de Botton
Art
You
Heart
Some
Something
More
Tends
Empathetic
Idea
Perform
Cheer
Instrumental
Make
Contend
Pill
Cultural
Off
Up
Person
Egocentric
Might
Asked
Use
Who
Reasons
Function
Specific
Alarm
Bells
Elite
Set
All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
Andrea Corr
Family
Me
World
Care
Degree
Most
Understand
Very
Egocentric
Loved
Loved Ones
Much
Thing
Need
Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
Bo Bennett
Thoughts
People
Own
Thinking
Other
Our
About
Consumed
Most
Always
Egocentric
May
Human
Just
Being
Want
Being Human
Us
Necessarily
Desires
Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.
David Grann
Own
Reckless
Considered
Mad
Touch
Egocentric
Often
Breed
Even
Base
'Cloud' and 'Flower' are very much egocentric about my own expression. 'Flow' is more utilitarian, and 'Journey' is more about collaboration between various creative voices in the team.
Jenova Chen
Journey
Creative
Own
Cloud
Flower
Collaboration
About
My Own
More
Various
Voices
Between
Very
Egocentric
Much
Team
Utilitarian
Expression
Flow
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
Joel Salatin
Soul
Thought
Fragmented
Thought Process
Gives
Fail
Counts
Cleverness
Disconnected
Linear
Western
Egocentric
Process
Then
Us
Appreciate
Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.
Lizzie Brochere
Intelligence
Alien
Nothing
Believe
Think
Universe
Else
Course
Very
Egocentric
Whole
You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.
Marjane Satrapi
Life
You
Live
Too
Way
Extremely
Individualistic
Know
Narcissistic
Person
Egocentric
Want
Really
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life
Alone
Problem
Old
Think
Universe
Earth
Would
Would-Be
Wow
No Problem
Had
Almost
Years
Egocentric
Us
Billion
Here
Suggest
Starting
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.
Nigel Kennedy
Music
Whatever
Own
Bach
My Own
Feels
Along
Like
Making
Beethoven
End
Up
Egocentric
Going
Maybe
Just
In The End
Whoever
Hendrix
Playing
Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.
Park Shin-hye
Myself
Good
Better
Care
Busy
Too
Way
Girlfriend
More
More And More
Could
Had
Taking
Course
Boyfriend
However
Egocentric
Getting
While
Show
Found
My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.
Sue Miller
God
Mother
Father
Thought
Before
Dramatic
Would
Put
She
Because
Felt
Alzheimer
Were
Person
Disease
Died
Egocentric
Often
Order
Which
Who
Lucky
I am very much an only child, meaning I am self-reliant, egocentric, sociable. I had my mother, father, and an uncle who lived with us, all doting on me.
Tony Wilson
Me
Mother
Father
Uncle
Only
Only Child
Had
Am
Self-Reliant
Very
Child
Egocentric
Sociable
Meaning
Us
Much
Who
Lived
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