Sentences with phrase «driven by ego»

Nothing she accomplishes is born of or driven by ego, yet her confidence and swiftness in evaluating a situation, assessing what needs to be done, understanding and respecting the delicacy of relationships — and ultimately achieving the right goals and solutions — make her the right hire, an adept business partner, a trusted advisor, a sought - after ally, and a gentle comrade.

Continuing to make films when your output declines and your best days are behind you can only be driven by ego.

Schmidt, on the other hand, is driven by ego and self - righteousness, closing his mind to the possibility that someone else may have a better idea for combatting terrorism than he does.

The spiritual teachers who are driven by ego, the yoga teachers who don't practice what they preach, and me — imperfect in every way — we're all on our own path.

A reaction is a hot, in - the - moment burst of emotion that's usually driven by our ego (so we're more likely to react when we're disconnected from ourselves).

For me, if my desire to share is driven by ego or coming from an attention - seeking place, the impulse is probably not appropriate.

the ego swims against the current, while the soul sits back and floats in the the direction that life is moving in.You're either being guided by your soul or driven by your ego...»

Off base, driven by ego, and compelled to shine your own version of «His truth» for the benefit of other Christians.

«I'm embarrassed as I'm getting older about how much of my energy and vitality as a younger man was driven by ego and a win - lose mentality.»

«Less driven by ego.»

This seems largely driven by egos and some kind of need by certain parties to provoke others and see their bantering on a device display.

Not exact matches

Hudson thinks meetings are often driven by big egos and laziness.

What I finally decided, was that it wasn't demon possession but rather she was a demon in being possessed by her own ego, by her drive to have and control everything... as I latter came to understand, a sociopathic personality totally self - focused and without any conscience.

Creationism is driven by human ego, pure and simple.

Sorry such self serving ego driving judgements are also made by people who have it all figured out and are bound to change as their moods and internal states change.

Along with the cheap fabrication of art, there was a smattering of drug use, one - night stands, shady financial deals and egos run amok by artists who would jump on stage, flip on a switch and «praise the Lord,» often giving canned speeches between songs that drove soccer moms to the merch table to pick up an album so their kids could have «positive role models.»

The more I reflect on this the more I think the Eberle trade was ego driven by the GM....

Fans are so skeptical of steroids - tainted baseball, so put off by the ego - driven NBA and so indifferent toward the lockout - scarred NHL that they are hungrier for the upcoming NFL season than for any of the previous 85.

Still, Petraeus isn't the first high - ranking man to get caught with his pants down by an adoring woman, and Broadwell clearly has an ego and drive to match Petraeus».

When you use your intelligence as a guide in your asanas rather than being driven by the goals of the ego, your yoga practice will lead toward a peaceful sense of physical and mental harmony.

If by lean, you mean 2.5 hours of pure arrogance and ego driven Christian propaganda, then sure.

I was so annoyed by the ego - driven performance and distracted by the horrible mustache that I wished someone would have simply pushed him off the train as they were traveling through the mountains.

Directed by Maren Ade Starring Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn and Ingrid Bisu SYNOPSIS: In order to reconnect with his business driven daughter, a father creates an alter ego pretending to be a high - flying life coach.

Johnson's own laudable efforts to pass civil rights legislation, as much driven by his own morality as by political calculations about winning higher office, waned after he felt that Martin Luther King and others didn't cater enough to his prodigious - yet - fragile ego.

The adaptive damper concept is automatically adjusted to different driving modes through ANIMA, or can be fully customized by the driver via the EGO mode, choosing the required rigidity for a very comfortable ride to an extremely sporty, aggressive setting dependent on driving style and road conditions.

One is that «hissy fit,» as my mother would have called it, thrown by so many in the business whose egos seem to drive them to opt for tweet - now - truth - later bombast.

Dear comics, Its not my fault... that you release the same thing in 5 formats, that you micro-manage your talent so much that they can't tell a decent story and get so pissed off by egos that they go to the other boss, that you don't know how to advertise your product, that you are so trapped by short term thinking that you fuck your self over, that you don't know how to keep your books in print, that you drove away people with high prices, oh and I didn't cause global warming either.

If the material culture denoted by Unswept Floors explores the ego - driven manifestation of our identity, then Tabula Rasa offers a kind of redemption.

Of those in the public eye, none seem driven by fame and ego (I generally don't find such people attarctive), while Garnaut, who is very charming, has always had that tendency — he was a close friend of PM Bob Hawke when I first knew him.

Similarly, we are all under an ego -LCB- driven temptation to project our private thoughts out onto the real world, by supposing that the creations of one's own imagination are real properties of Nature, or that one's own ignorance signifies some kind of indecision on the part of Nature

But just as often, I suspect, a request to profile or interview a particular partner was driven by that partner's combination of ego and influence.

Possibly, it is because individuals anointed as leaders sometimes are perceived by non-leaders to be ego - driven, and that can be untenable and unattractive.