Answer: Try this gloomy pile on!
1. I want the goose’s golden eggs, but I don’t care about the goose!
2. I believe I am a hero, and I’ll distort whatever information I have to to keep that belief intact.
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. Margaret Mead
Human beings aren’t rational animals; we’re rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. Elliot Aronson
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard P.Feynman
3. I believe I am never wrong. It’s never my fault.
4. Others behave badly because they are bad; I behave badly because circumstances make me.
5. I am essentially perfect; other people are horribly flawed.
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. Byron J. Langenfeld
5. I don’t like to have to work hard. Working hard is for “try hards”; I am naturally talented and smart and good at things, so I shouldn’t have to work hard.
6. Others criticizing me is totally unacceptable; I stay away from people who criticize me.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. Franklin P. Jones
7. I don’t want to hear about other people’s good fortune and success–this makes me feel bad.
8. I don’t want to hear about other people’s lofty dreams and big ambitions–this makes me feel small.
9. I don’t want to acknowledge other people excel at things I’d like to be good at–this makes me feel deficient.
9. Unfair things should never happen to me–this makes me feel really angry.
10. I want others to love me, accept me, understand me, respect me, admire me and believe in me–but I don’t want to have to do those things to others.
11. I want to win and winning is sweetest when others lose.
12. I want certainty; I hate failing. I hate working hard for nothing.
The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed. Michelangelo
13. I feel invincible. I do whatever bad things I like to my body and to others and things because I believe my charmed life will let me get away with it.
14. Others shouldn’t ever say mean things or do mean things to me because I am very sensitive.
15. If I try really hard for something, I deserve to get it.
16. I would be so happy and successful if only the right things could happen.
17. The gods of fortune are cruel to me; but other people deserve the bad things that happen to them.
18. If I were in a position of power, I would use my power responsibly and effectively.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
19. If others aren’t like me and don’t think the way I think, they’re wrong and bad.
20. I am right; if you disagree with me, you are wrong.
It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Mark Twain
We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. Anais Nin
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell
21. I know just about everything so you should shut up and listen and learn.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. Wayne Dyer
22. I think rationally. I am not swayed by faulty logic or emotion.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. Robert Heinlein
23. I am the way I am. I am perfectly acceptable the way I am. I don’t need to change. You are being unreasonable to complain.
24. If I feel bad, I need to vent all those bad feelings to you–it makes me feel better and you should want to listen and support me and agree with my version of events.
25. If I notice you doing something that I consider is wrong, I will point this out to you for your own good.
26. I offer others my advice because I obviously can see what you can’t see.
27.I see other people as useful resources to be exploited; I see things as wonderful things to be collected and loved.
People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. There is much chaos in this world because things are being loved and people are being used. Unknown
28. I believe I am talented at anticipating how things will turn out.
29. I believe I earn all my successes while other people’s successes are due to luck.
30. When group projects turn out well, I believe I contributed significantly to the success; when group projects turn out badly, I believe it was other people’s fault.
31. Others should always follow the established moral rules of conduct but I can break them because I am special and my reasons justify it.
32. I talk big, but I don’t follow through.
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
33. I love having lots of money–it makes me feel successful and secure.
The love of money as a possession. . .will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity. John Maynard Keynes
34. I am conservative. I hate new ideas and change.
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. Colin Wilson
The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. W. Somerset Maugham
Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. Howard Aiken
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. Martin Luther King
35. I don’t like thinking things through; I like to be spontaneous–a free spirit.
A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers consequences. Proverbs 27:12
36. If I were fr
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