"The subject matter of Entitlement remains relevant. Entitlement is an attitude: it is the assumption, I am owed what I get. It's a nasty attitude because people are not grateful for what they get. Instead, greed prevails and is expressed as, What have you done for me lately?"

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Judith M Bardwick

#Attitude Quotes #Grateful Quotes #People Quotes

“Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.”
“I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement â€” especially when walking behind it.”
“We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors”
“The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the nonessentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless.”

Source : "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 17, 2014.
“The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.”
“Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had a few minor mental breakdowns due to a what I felt like was a constant chipping away at my personhood (guys thinking I would have unprotected sex with them if they just paid me fifty more dollars, for instance) and a few abusive clients.”
“How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?”
“People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.”

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