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“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.”

Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.”

Trying Past Remember Lost Ideals Stopping Refrain

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.”

Ifs Trying Character Feelings Jobs Degrees Paper Draws Ideals Notes Drawing Planning Comic Rough Nails

Author:Dave Gibbons

“What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.”

People Trying Kind Might Care Personality Ideals Horrible Painter Bother Idealism Always Trying

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”

Ifs Men Trying Mean Doe Matter Successful Creatures Ideals Toughness

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...”

Trying Realizing Prove Ideals Faults Setback

Author:Dag Hammarskjold