I think we're much harder on ourselves than other people are. This is not a unique situation here... But I never liked the 'Celtic Tiger' as a phrase.
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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough.
I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.
Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again.
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