It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place.
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.
I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
The people who feel the most strongly about something will turn on you the most vociferously if they feel you've let them down.
It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.