Mr. DE PREIST: The idea of the maestro and this big ego trip is a waste of time, as far as I'm concerned.
This type of ego-motivated behavior is driven by a desire to be loved and appreciated.
As stand-up gigs go, this is about as ego-centric as they come.
And the reason you do this is that your ego is so big it is literally unfathomable to you that there could possibly be any other way of looking at things besides the way that YOU look at them.
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This required a serious and ego-denting re-evaluation of the country's historical as well as present-day role at the head of a colonial empire.
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On the other hand, given the amount of effort and money put into the changes, there does seem to be some company skin, and ego, in this game.
But lists like this, besides providing an ego-check, do serve a purpose: they give us the chance to put the slow weeks before the holidays to get cozy with the thesaurus button (Shift-F7 for those not in-the-know) and rework out professional paperwork before the new year comes calling.
The magic glue that keeps all this together is the Cloud, in this case acting as your alter ego, a digital representation of you and your stuff: all those preferences, settings, privileges, programs, subscriptions, documents, photos, videos, music, and backup services.
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Ominously, this is an industry often driven by ego rather than hard economics.
But, psychologists say, grossly overtipping can also be a sign of a large ego ("look at this money I'm throwing around") or a thinly veiled attempt by an insecure person to buy approval.
It's about as personal and intimate as a film can get, and yet its structure, on the surface so disjointed, is held in place with such skill that this voyage around the filmmaker's ego absorbs its audience from start to finish.
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But this is audacity rooted in love and courage not ego and politics.
Mixing self-deprecating humor with an ego to match his bulging wallet, this 57-year-old entertainment titan is unlikely to let his money sit.
Of course, this is not baseball but one cannot ever take ego out of the equation when it comes to managing a company and it will not go unnoticed that if BHP is frustrated in its approach for Potash Corp. it will be the third corporate takeover failure to be chalked up by CEO Marius Kloppers since he assumed the role in 2007.
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For Friedman, this was a tough lesson to learn, coming from the ego-driven world of television.
This either speaks to incredible stupidity, or an incredibly inflated ego.
"It takes someone of his outsize personality and--I mean this in the best sense of the word--of his ego to pull all of it off as grandly and efficiently as he does, " says NBC's Tom Brokaw, a guest in June.
Even though reality TV seems to be the root cause for all of our declining values, this genre is, once again, blamed for turning fathers into selfish ego-monsters.
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This is the hubris mentioned at the beginning of the article, an inflated ego that eventually costs the company money.
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Ms. PRIEST: Well, you know, personal ego comes into everything in the world, and it certainly comes into this realm, as well.
Ego-bragging about former companies was so prevalent I implemented a fun way of calling attention to this negative practice.
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