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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. Robert A. Heinlein

Jealousy Insecurity Symptom Invariably Neurotic Self-Confident Person Anything Incapable Competent

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. Helen Fisher

Jealous Jealousy People Problem Others Symptom Insecure Scar More Tend True Feel Demon Overly Than Often Childhood Dependent Regard Psychological Inadequate Therapists Who Trauma Why

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. Paul Tillich

Maturity Awareness Symptom Definite Highest Failures Well Ambiguity Achievements Deepest

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. Erik Erikson

Love Failure Mistake Joy Symptom Hateful Triumph His Accomplishment Very Child Children Want Loved Prefer Much

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. Victor Hugo

Love Man Girl First Young Symptom Timidity Young Man Boldness

Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness. Jillian Michaels

Feeling Else Symptom Something Something Else Lazy Exist Self-Worth Off Up Person Get Lack Just Depressed Pervasive Who Helplessness Butt

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego. Sylvia Plath

Myself Ego Discipline Symptom Unless Later Latter Plots Must Record Unproductive Rather Purpose Pointless Merely Knit Also Without Dialogue Motives Than Trying Probe Sensations Story Create Descriptions Imaginative

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference. Maria Montessori

Work Creative Rudeness Expectation Patient Symptom State Adolescence Indifference Tendency Had He Self-Confidence Towards Becomes Very Chief Child Which Sensitive Creative Work Suddenly Suffered Strengthening Need

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Innovation National Symptom Jobs See About Absence Advance Major Talk Priority Overseas Going Frontier Being

This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition. Tom Colicchio

People Problem School Poverty Lunch Sugar Symptom Nutrition Kids Obesity Eating Lifestyle Empty Because Exercising Understand Calories Lots Getting Diet Just Where The Problem With Choice Now Right Fat

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy. Alfred Hermann Fried

War Symptom Anarchy Condition Itself Much International

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The food famine becomes a symptom of that vast failure. Amber Rudd

Education Health Food Failure Democracy Other Symptom About More Vast Becomes Items Than Famine Much Transport Many

A lot of the messed-up stuff that men inflict on women is kind of a symptom of the messed-up stuff that they should be dealing with themselves. Ben Schnetzer

Women Men Symptom Kind Stuff Dealing Lot Inflict Themselves Should

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is. Cassandra Clare

Work Problem Try Backwards Down Believe Other Symptom Symptoms Out Kind Write Writer Like House Block Disease Figure

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. Edward Gibbon

Corruption Liberty Symptom Constitutional Most Infallible

Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most. Emily Levine

You Patriotism Problem Society Other Else Symptom Status Obesity See Above Consume Consumption Most How How Much According Much Who Each Larger Growth Compete Here

Donald Trump's rise is certainly a symptom of our fading virtue and faith, but ironically, he may well be our only hope for finding our way back to bolder expressions of them. Eric Metaxas

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring. Fernando Flores

Style Symptom Caring Lack

Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes. Floyd Skloot

Nervous Organic Viral Symptom System Out Nervous System Brought About Case Emotional Wiped Dementia Also Affected Condition Brain Brain Damage Intellectual After Tissue Central Processes Certain Disorder Assault Damage

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. Friedensreich Hundertwasser

You Symptom Our Ruler Moral Carrying Pocket Civilisation New Forbidden Least Disease Just Disintegration Should Your Illiteracy Symbol Basis

The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women. Helen Fisher

Women Changes Symptom Economy Just Movement Basic

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. Hermann Hesse

Me Relationship Increasing Symptom See Write Between Category Readers Continuously Literature Which Certain Growing Letters Among

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