Sentence examples for superior self from inspiring English sources

Feedback in classical performance is the sound of musicians desperately trying to embody the superior self they glimpsed in the mirror and, potentially, turning themselves into robots in the process.

But how can anyone know what the ideal self is, the superior self that is not merely better, but best?

We feel pain at the felt contradiction between this and our actual self and pain at the thought of not being the superior self we desire.

In Bradley's theory the ultimate moral end of self-realization presents two pictures of the self, labels one of these "superior" and sets the moral task as realizing that superior self in the face of the actual, inferior self.

By contrast, Bradley argues that in acting morally we choose and will and act in terms of the idea of a state of affairs which represents a superior self to be realized.

If volitional choice has a possible state of oneself as its object, and if one has identified one's satisfaction with achieving this, then acting so as to realize the superior self that has been pictured is an advancing of oneself or realizing oneself.

We need a glimpse of it to feel superior, self-satisfied.

Sir Woolton reveals his innermost thoughts and opinions with an attitude of superior self-importance and self-righteousness.

But the whole point of this philosophy is that you defeat your opponents with superior self-discipline.

It's possible that these teams would be better off finding their own narratives of superior self-efficacy, ones not shared by all their competitors.

IF you were born female in the mid- to late portion of the last century with parents who were not averse to books, there is reasonable cause to believe that you developed some sort of intimacy with a young woman of superior self-possession named Nancy Drew.