Haake W45 Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't hard to find such data. For example, between 1948 and 1954, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered theymselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was revisited in 1989, and this time it wasn't 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent of boys and 77 percent of girls. Psychologists have a thing called the narcissism test. They read people statements and ask if the statements apply to them. Statements such as "I like to be the center of attention ... I show off if I get the chance because I am extraordinary ... Somebody should write a biography about me." The median narcissism score has risen 30 percent in the last two decades. Ninety-three percent of young people score higher than the middle score just twenty years ago.4 The largest gains have been in the number of people who agree with the statements "I am an extraordinary person" and "I like to look at my body. — David Brooks

But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that. — Christopher Shays

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. — Mignon McLaughlin

Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor. — Anthony Doerr