{"quotes":[{"text":"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["bad","ego","egoism","egoist","egotism","egotist","enemy","envious","envy","fight","fighting","fool","fools","friends","friendships","gift","happiness","happy","hate","hater","hatred","jealous","jealousy","michael-bassey-johnson","money","negative","negative-people","pangs","people","poison","problem","prying","regret","regrets","relate","relationships","reveal","show","surprises","trouble","villian","witchcraft"],"id":13268,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["bully","egotist","feel-better","fool","gossip","idiot","impressionalbe","laugh","make-fun-of","memory","name-calling","remember","rumor","strangely","stupidity"],"id":76320,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"... A man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["black-humor","dark-humor","ego","egotism","egotist","funny","gadfly","humorous","irony","irony-of-life","men","pride","pride-trap","sarcasm","socrates"],"id":98033,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["attention","banal","boring","boring-book","carnal","cruel","cruelty","disease","dog","ego","egoism","egoist","egotist","epidemic","humilation","impolite","impoliteness","improper","insult","insults","lack-of-respect","lackadaisical","lazarus","madness","maltreatment","michael-bassey-johnson","mistake","popularity","pride","readers","rigid","shallow","stupidity","unfeeling","unpopularity","vanity","weird","writers","writing"],"id":125144,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["burden","detractors","distract","egocentric","egoism","egotism","egotist","fake-friends","fatal","laziness","lazy","michael-bassey-johnson","mission","narcissism","parasites","perch","satisfaction","self-absorbed","self-centred","self-interest","self-obsessed","vain"],"id":168283,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["anti-social","apathy","decievers","displeasure","dogma","dogmatic","egoism","egotism","egotist","fake-friends","feelings","flatter","flattering","impulse","impulsive","logic","madness","michael-bassey-johnson","misfit","mishap","pressure","reasoning","trick"],"id":179896,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we truly comprehend the immaculate beauty of every day unfolding before us.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["beauty-of-life","bliss","bliss","ego","egotist","egotistical","enlightenment","enlightenment-principles","enlightenment","loving-life","narcissism","narcissistic","selfish","selfish","selfishness"],"id":325940,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both, then you aren’t an entrepreneur.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["arrogancestar","cunning","destroyer","dishonest","distorted-appearance","distortion","egocentric","egoist","egomaniac","egotist","entrepreneur","ethical","fiddling","lack-of-empathy","narcissism","personal-advantage","self-absorptionstar","self-benefit","self-invloved","selfishness","tempering","tempering-other-s-business"],"id":377064,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["ego","egoism","egotist","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","proud","success","successful"],"id":432384,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Never talk to waiters like that,' Kit said.'Can I help it,' he said, 'if I only went one year to finishing school?'It isn't manners,' she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a small boy, 'it just isn't smart.'I thought of the time I first told him not to say ain't. He took this the same way, a little peeved but making mental notes. I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion. I was beginning to see what Kit had for Sammy. Of course she stood for something never within his reach before. But it was more than that. Sammy seemed to know that his career was entering a new cycle where polish paid off. You could almost see him filing off the rough edges against the sharp blade of her mind.","author":"Budd Schulberg","tags":["criticism","egotist","finishing-school","manners","polish","self-propulsion","waiters"],"id":443961,"author_id":"Budd+Schulberg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}