Sentences with phrase «egotistical reasons»

«Let go of the egotistical reasons that might make you want something like «Senior Manager» and aim for the title that'll get you better work later on.

They seem interested in having a large following (perhaps for egotistical reasons) but not reciprocating.

Yet the take home message for the midwife will be that OBs are hostile to homebirths for their own egotistical reasons and worried about her taking away their business...

For me, I'll just keep plugging away, putting words on paper, sending queries, self - publishing when I think I'm ready, but still hoping for a call from a traditional publisher (for the simple egotistical reason that I want to say I was traditionally published, even though many writers make more with self - publishing).

Not exact matches

Don, for principled (or egotistical) reasons, has occasionally done mischief to everyone's finances — above all, as Bert notes, when his fit of pique at a Jaguar exec blew up the agency's public offering, «cost [ing Joan] a million dollars» in Season Six.

Some feel he could improve if the egotistical Portuguese forward were sold (another rumour that seems to have some weight to it as the summer approaches) but Real have little reason to believe they should offloaded their superstar with nearly 300 goals in just six seasons to make way for a player who had one truly outstanding season... two years ago for Tottenham Hotspur.

think the majority on here are glad to see the back of Ade for the simple reason that he was a lazy egotistical rip off merchant and not that good a player after all.

For those reasons, I admit an initial reluctance to buy into «Billions,» Showtime's new drama (premiering Sunday) about a wildly successful and egotistical hedge - fund master (Damian Lewis) who is relentlessly pursued by an equally egotistical U.S. attorney (Paul Giamatti).

Unfortunately, she also has all of the baggage that goes with it, including stalker paparazzi, a manager who insists that Grace and Jack not take their relationship public for business reasons, sleazy egotistical fellow actors, and a producer who's at his breaking point that she hasn't lost another twenty pounds.

An egotistical move, I know, but there's a reason.