Word: selfesteem
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...seizing the opportunity to switch careers. Still, Americans more typically take a cruel psychic bruising when they lose a job (never mind the cause). And if joblessness goes on for long, men and women of all ages, occupations and economic classes tend to suffer a sharp loss of selfesteem, a diminished sense of identity, a certain murkiness of purpose, a sense of estrangement from their friends-a sort of feeling of exile from wherever they feel they really belong...
...your body is narcissistic. It's basically a solo act. Narcissism comes when you're not connected to the rest of the world." By contrast, Dr. Dennis Colacino, director of the PepsiCo Fitness Programs, proclaims: "It gives people a better self-image. It helps one's selfesteem, it sharpens one's competitive edge." Somewhere between these poles is a path of balance down which a confused American can safely...
...always been judged tacky - poor form, at best. Good form has always required reticence about one's virtues. To think well of oneself was one thing, but, under the traditional rules, it was quite an other to give voice to one's privately cultivated selfesteem. In deed, even if somebody else called attention to one's admirable points, one was supposed to disclaim the praise...
Lacking in selfesteem, many have donned and doffed different identities like costumes. Some have tried to weave identities out of fictional strands. Bremer imagined himself as the son of Actress Donna Reed. Sara Jane Moore, who tried to shoot President Ford, thought of herself as a Halo shampoo girl. The movie Taxi Driver wove together many themes found in the lives of American assassins. A taxi driver (played by Robert De Niro), obsessed with shooting a presidential candidate and protecting a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), beset by aggressive urges as well as sexual ones (coded in the film...
...writing my political obituary on the first of October with five weeks to go. But all of us have pride and selfesteem. We have to be good at what we are doing. One of the things that mean a great deal to me is that all those people come up to me and say, "Thank you, John, for giving me a choice." That touches me. I am sufficiently emotional that I carry away a feeling of commitment to those people. It is not one that I would lightly abandon...