Sentences with phrase «time stroking their ego»

This will probably leave them multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars worse off in retirement someday because they spent so much time stroking their ego trying to achieve big gains on small amounts of capital that in the big scheme of things will leave them worse off in the long term.

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We who claim Christ should spend less time this season building convenient enemies to stroke our fragile egos, and more time having our hearts freshly broken for the daily heavy burdens of those walking alongside us — and moved to help carry them without delay.

If true it will be because either Pep or Klopp will have done what foreign coaches do, they stroke egos and make promises to get the best young talent they can, whilst also hitting a rival manager at the same time.

For not too much money (well, if you only talk to 1 person and only send 1 letter a day), you will have your ego stroked for quite a long time.

Why should a young quality female who is investing more of herself, time and energy into a man (SD) receive less than an escort who ONLY provides sex and not the whole ego - stroke, warm - feelies package??

If you're vanity publishing and want the prettiest book possible, and you don't mind spending a lot of extra time and money stroking your ego, go for it.

You've spent many hours finely crafting your resume, getting 10 different and conflicting comments from 10 different people, had it proofed 3 times... and then you wake up and realize it's written to stroke your own ego — but misses the information that's relevant to hiring managers.

Patients will more willingly follow directions and pay attention and the staff member's ego gets stroked at the same time.