self-praise

Living in a society that shuns blatant acts of self-praise, I learned that when we admire people we are often projecting the best and beautiful parts of ourselves onto them.

Akoshia Yoba: It Takes One to Know One: Dancing With the Shadow Self Akoshia Yoba 2011

That was the purpose of this post, not self-praise, as you suggest.

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The administration's embrace of Pratt's cover up strategy, its breathless self-praise for its own brilliance in resolving the crisis at virtually no cost, its perversion of the accounting rules and the PCA to bail out and make even wealthier the senior officers 'whose frauds drove the current crisis, and both administrations' failure to prosecute the elite frauds have enraged a broad spectrum of Americans.

William K. Black: If Obama Thinks the Response to the S&L Debacle Failed, Why Is He Adopting it? William K. Black 2010

The administration's embrace of Pratt's cover up strategy, its breathless self-praise for its own brilliance in resolving the crisis at virtually no cost, its perversion of the accounting rules and the PCA to bail out and make even wealthier the senior officers 'whose frauds drove the current crisis, and both administrations' failure to prosecute the elite frauds have enraged a broad spectrum of Americans.

William K. Black: If Obama Thinks the Response to the S&L Debacle Failed, Why Is He Adopting it? William K. Black 2010

The administration's embrace of Pratt's cover up strategy, its breathless self-praise for its own brilliance in resolving the crisis at virtually no cost, its perversion of the accounting rules and the PCA to bail out and make even wealthier the senior officers 'whose frauds drove the current crisis, and both administrations' failure to prosecute the elite frauds have enraged a broad spectrum of Americans.

William K. Black: If Obama Thinks the Response to the S&L Debacle Failed, Why Is He Adopting it? William K. Black 2010

The administration's embrace of Pratt's cover up strategy, its breathless self-praise for its own brilliance in resolving the crisis at virtually no cost, its perversion of the accounting rules and the PCA to bail out and make even wealthier the senior officers 'whose frauds drove the current crisis, and both administrations' failure to prosecute the elite frauds have enraged a broad spectrum of Americans.

William K. Black: If Obama Thinks the Response to the S&L Debacle Failed, Why Is He Adopting it? William K. Black 2010

The administration's embrace of Pratt's cover up strategy, its breathless self-praise for its own brilliance in resolving the crisis at virtually no cost, its perversion of the accounting rules and the PCA to bail out and make even wealthier the senior officers 'whose frauds drove the current crisis, and both administrations' failure to prosecute the elite frauds have enraged a broad spectrum of Americans.

William K. Black: If Obama Thinks the Response to the S&L Debacle Failed, Why Is He Adopting it? William K. Black 2010

Living in a society that shuns blatant acts of self-praise, I learned that when we admire people we are often projecting the best and beautiful parts of ourselves onto them.

Akoshia Yoba: It Takes One to Know One: Dancing With the Shadow Self Akoshia Yoba 2011

The administration's embrace of Pratt's cover up strategy, its breathless self-praise for its own brilliance in resolving the crisis at virtually no cost, its perversion of the accounting rules and the PCA to bail out and make even wealthier the senior officers 'whose frauds drove the current crisis, and both administrations' failure to prosecute the elite frauds have enraged a broad spectrum of Americans.

William K. Black: If Obama Thinks the Response to the S&L Debacle Failed, Why Is He Adopting it? William K. Black 2010

The administration's embrace of Pratt's cover up strategy, its breathless self-praise for its own brilliance in resolving the crisis at virtually no cost, its perversion of the accounting rules and the PCA to bail out and make even wealthier the senior officers 'whose frauds drove the current crisis, and both administrations' failure to prosecute the elite frauds have enraged a broad spectrum of Americans.

William K. Black: If Obama Thinks the Response to the S&L Debacle Failed, Why Is He Adopting it? William K. Black 2010