"A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else."

-- John B. Keane

#Thinking Quotes #Inferiority Quotes #Inferiority Complex Quotes

“...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, itâ€™s not its fault. Thatâ€™s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadnâ€™t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldnâ€™t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!”
“There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.”
“Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.”
“The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.”
“I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college.”

Source : "A conversation with St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lance Berkman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue.”
“Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.”

Source : Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.76, New World Library

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