Some People Stand And Move As If

Stressing The Practice Of Living Purposefully As Essential To Fully Realized Self-esteem Is Not Equivalent To Measuring An Individual's Worth By His Or Her External Achievements. We Admire Achievements-in Ourselves And Others-and It Is Natural And Appropriate For Us To Do So. But That Is Not The Same Thing As Saying That Our Achievements Are The Measure Or Grounds Of Our Self-esteem. The Root Of Our Self-esteem Is Not Our Achievements But Those Internally Generated Practices That, Among Other Things, Make It Possible For Us To Achieve.

If You Are Terrified Of Making Mistakes, You Will Be Reluctant To Acknowledge Them When You Do Make Them-and Therefore You Will Not Correct Them.

Sometimes The Subconscious Mind Manifests A Wisdom Several Steps Or Even Years Ahead Of The Conscious Mind, And Has Its Own Way Of Leading Us Toward Our Destiny.

Productive Achievement Is A Consequence And An Expression Of Health And Self-esteem, Not Its Cause.

... There Is An Irrational, Cultish Tendency In Many Intellectual Movements, And Objectivism, Alas, Is No Exception. Ayn Rand's Personal Obsession With Loyalty Did Little To Discourage This Trend.... Rand Had Often Protested, 'protect Me From My Followers!'