Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.
Doing something the right way is something I take pride in.
I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.
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