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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
Carl Sagan
Great
Dark
Light
Lonely
Universe
Our
Our Planet
Some
Cosmic
Point
Delusion
Self-Importance
Privileged
Planet
Challenged
Pale
Speck
Imagined
Position
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
J. Donald Walters
Leadership
Opportunity
Call
Self-Importance
Trumpet
Serve
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Thomas Szasz
Leadership
Learning
Before
Own
Young
Every
Easily
Willingness
Self-Esteem
Learn
Self-Importance
Children
Young Children
Act
Requires
Suffer
Aware
Why
Injury
Conscious
I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.
Moby
Life
Fear
Narcissism
Living
Think
Tends
Lead
Sort
Self-Importance
Lot
Product
Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.
Christopher Guest
Jealous
Musicians
Way
Musician
Folk
More
Fact
Cruel
Know
Because
Self-Importance
Rock
Rock Musicians
Lot
Than
Same
Used
People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.
Greil Marcus
Great
People
Sense
Out
Memoirs
Write
Take
Great Sense
Self-Importance
Anyway
Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.
Julia Sawalha
Hurt
People
Important
Fall
Think
More
Only
Colossal
Lead
Self-Importance
Very
Than
Far
Actor
Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.
Michael Pollan
Nature
You
Achievement
World
Value
Looking
Other
Consider
Tools
Crowning
Points
Along
Another
Self-Importance
Cure
Disease
Getting
Human
Just
Human Consciousness
Which
Realize
Really
View
Suddenly
Species
Consciousness
Set
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