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Write down four self-criticisms or negative beliefs that may be affecting you.
Make Yourself Unforgettable Dale Carnegie 2011
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Delighted to see that Barnes picked as one of his books of the year Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim Virgin, which he praises for its "exuberance of memories . . . anecdotes, criticisms and self-criticisms" – a good description of his own book on death, which is also a tribute to Jules Renard, a writer waiting in the wings for so long and with whom I have been obsessed for half a lifetime.
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Write down four self-criticisms or negative beliefs that may be affecting you.
Make Yourself Unforgettable Dale Carnegie 2011
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A soothing silence was starting to take shape in my mind in the place where my self-criticisms and self-admonishments had lived, the voices that had been trying to help me save my marriage—a tentative blank spot where I was just me.
Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010
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There it was: a steady stream of small but painful self-criticisms, like an onslaught of tiny, fierce hornets.
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A soothing silence was starting to take shape in my mind in the place where my self-criticisms and self-admonishments had lived, the voices that had been trying to help me save my marriage—a tentative blank spot where I was just me.
Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010
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There it was: a steady stream of small but painful self-criticisms, like an onslaught of tiny, fierce hornets.
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Beyond the broadest-brush self-criticisms and a reheated Blairite communitarianism, the elder Miliband appears, as Alan Johnson puts it, unable to think of a "single issue on which Labour got the balance wrong".
Ed is the only Miliband who offers a genuine alternative 2010
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A soothing silence was starting to take shape in my mind in the place where my self-criticisms and self-admonishments had lived, the voices that had been trying to help me save my marriage—a tentative blank spot where I was just me.
Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010
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Like other "troublemakers," I had over the years made more than a few specious "self-criticisms" in order to get past the interrogators.
Blanket of Ivory 2009
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