Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs
You can't out-perform your self-image.