Sentences with phrase «like selfishness»

Picabia outmaneuvered much of Surrealism in works like Untitled (Spanish Woman and Lamb of the Apocalypse)(1927), from his Transparenices series of paintings that takes him through the 1930s, then into the unapologetic kitsch «realism» of Spring (c. 1942 - 43), and, finally, to the anything - but - pure «abstraction» of what would become his last works, paintings like Selfishness (1950) and the aptly - titled Salary Is the Reason for Work (1949).

Metta meditation is an amazing way to see how you can dedicate energy to loving yourself without it looking anything like selfishness or narcissism.

Yes, addictive behaviors often begin with a moral failing like selfishness or overindulgence.

Not exact matches

Many of the things we do not like to see in people — duplicity, greed, malice, and selfishness — she was completely innocent of.

These folks aren't necessarily committing crimes, but this small but significant portion of the population does display some essential traits of psychopathy, like lack of empathy, selfishness, lack of guilt, and plenty of charm.

Selfishness can be represented formally like this:

In his influential book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins asserts that «Like successful Chicago gangsters our genes have survived... in a highly competitive world,... [and so] a predominant quality to be expected in a successful gene is ruthless selfishness.»

Marriage has an uncanny way of revealing our selfishness, biases and secret fantasies for our spouse to become more like us.

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriage.

The problem with blaming all this on faith or religion is that it hides the true culprits: fear, hatred, and selfishness — which culprits are leveraged by evil leaders of groups like ISIS.

There is nothing happy about «800,000 like minded people,» like - minded in their selfishness.

Desiring to be free of earthly entrapments like human creed, human doctrine, human group - think and human power is not always a sign of selfishness or depravity.

However, let's not miss that God designed marriage not only to stretch us beyond our selfishness to become more like Jesus through trials, but also to bring great joy to our lives with the myriad of gifts marriage provides.

When it comes to sharing of our own good fortune with others who are in great need, this selfishness continues to try to sound like individualism: «I take care of myself; others ought to do the same.»

These people are clearly not being tempted by greed or selfishness like the rest of us, which makes choosing to be good rather easy, wouldn't you say?

They will seem like rationalizations of selfishness.

The Anglican leaders, like Buttiglione, claimed to be keeping their moral standards in place: They issued a «strong condemnation of the use of any methods of conception control from motives of selfishness, luxury, or mere convenience,» and said «complete abstinence» should be the first option.

Unfortunately selfishness is just like any other addiction.

So what you are left with is someone who wants to act like Christ, but is just as susceptible to selfishness, self - promotion, envy, hate, and greed as the next person.

I can understand the selfishness in strikers (Welbeck) but I do think in such situations the TEAM comes first so Wlebeck & Ramsey should lookout for better positioned players like Sanchez and Cazorla would.

As much as i like both sanchez and ozil as players, their selfishness and unprofessionalism is having a direct effect on team morale....

However, much like an episode of the Simpsons where Monty Burns abates the safety inspector's concerns with ambiguity and charm, or where a banking crash is blamed on an individual's greed and selfishness rather than on inadequate regulation and recklessness from those at the top, Wenger will paper over the cracks from now until the end of the transfer window.

I know LVG likes Depay but we are saying that if he continues to display selfishness he should be subbed for a better player

Though our pediatrician wasn't worried a bit about my daughter, it seemed like everyone else was: parent magazines crowed about the need to breastfeed (despite running ads for formula); online parent forums held open season on the selfishness of people who wouldn't breastfeed; and I knew formula moms who had been blatantly harassed by some of La Leche League's less well - trained members.

and most today only think it's «normal» when a baby isn't getting what it needs first... SO THAT IT HAS NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO CRY... and you should read «it takes a village» by clinton... yes parents are people too and yes if you don't take care of yourself first then you can't take care of your baby... just like when you get on an airplane you're instructed to in an emergency put on your oxygen mask first THEN help the child sitting next to you... BUT the only reason it's impossible for most people to keep their baby from crying is because they are trying to raise their babies alone without the help of the «village»... so come down off your high horse and just ask for help... it will not only help you (listed you first because of your obvious selfishness from your post... «we don't stop having needs to sleep and eat and have relations with our peers either») but it will mostly benefit the baby.

They insist that Mario Cuomo got more done than he is often remembered for: holding firm against the death penalty, protecting the safety net in the era of selfishness, and, yes, even passing mundane reforms like a seat - belt law.

It is not pure selfishness in the Darwinian sense, like a stag that picks a fight with another.

Individual freedom and social responsibility may sound like humanistic concepts, but an investigation of the genetic circuitry of bacteria suggests that even the simplest creatures can make difficult choices that strike a balance between selflessness and selfishness.

i have 28 year look like young man feet 5.3 cm with a kind and open heart, i value honesty, openness, truth, sincerity and mutuality, i dislike lies, selfishness and egoism, i believe that love will rescue our world.I find myself as a romantic, sensitive and kind pe...

It's not all sad though, because like anything Ephron, there's always a lesson in loving yourself and learning to accept that the selfishness of others is something you will never change.

Maybe they just did them for no reason at all or because of stupidity or selfishness or cowardice or anger or for reasons that made no rational sense - because the clouds happened to be a particularly gloomy shade of gray that day, because the barking of an old dog chained to a sycamore tree just happened to sound exactly like the crunch of soldiers» boots on gravel or the hum of bees like an engine in the head driving you mad.

«There are quite a few intellectuals in Germany, most of all Günter Grass, who I hate because they're defending something [East Germany] out of pure selfishness, and that's why I don't like them, and especially as they have retouched their past, or rather concealed it.

If we took the lead, setting an example for outstanding moral behavior rather than setting an example of outstanding selfishness, there'd be more pressure on nations like China and India to step up to the plate and do the right thing.

Like a Law & Order episode, jealousy, greed, control, and selfishness were just a few of the themes in my cases.

For marriages with relatively minor issues, such as disagreements, communication failures, hostility, depression, selfishness, jealousy, neediness, and the like - are issues that can be resolved very effectively in counsel