Arrogance Quotes - Page 26

• I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

  Alan Kay

  Computer, Nano, Mets

  YouTube Channel "Jeff Gonis"/"Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet", www.youtube.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

  Ali MacGraw

  Thinking, Good Movie, Stuff

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• It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it. We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain. One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on...unless you are a king.

  Kofi Annan

  Running, Country, Kings

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• I think the arrogance of people who think or actually are in the establishment, think they're part of it or actually are, they cannot help themselves, apparently. They take this guy, Trump, who is not a politician, in the career sense, and they plug him into their system and analyze what he does and what he says the way they analyze professional politicians and what they say and do, and they miss it. Which is not news. The news is they're not even getting close to understanding it yet. Despite the never-ending efforts on the part of people like me to help them figure it out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Missing

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I can't justify taking one minute of free time for myself. I'm restless to do things. Anything! Hell, I'll watch Top Chef and I think, "God, maybe I could be a chef," I'll watch a dancing show and think, "God, maybe I can be a dancer." I mean, that's how I got into acting. I visited an improv show and thought, "Hey! I could do this." It sounds like arrogance, but I don't think it is... just an ambition to reach out and touch something new.

  Steven Yeun

  Ambition, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly, because of the relatively poor performance of many corporations in the early part of millennial , there seems to be less arrogance in executive suites, and that usually translates to a willingness to consider alternatives.

  James O'Toole

  Poor, Optimist, Translate

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Stick on this that Donald Trump as the outsider doesn't know what's going on. That the inside-the-Beltway culture is special and it's so unique and it's so tiny that nobody that's not part of it could ever, ever function. Nobody who's not in the establishment could possibly understand it. So they have an arrogance that leads to a condescension against people, which leads the inside-the-Beltway, the establishment, both parties, to think of Trump as no different than his voters, a bumpkin idiot.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's something wrong with the system when you've got someone who can provide so much to a company and can be enthusiastic, but isn't management material or whatever. So a lot of that just gets defined as the person who speaks with the loudest voice and gets up there with the most arrogance and overly confident, chest-beating approach. Those are the ones that are going to get the golden ring.

  Milo Aukerman

  Management, Speak, Enthusiastic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

  Jan Burke

  Accepted, Application, Position

  Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

  Robert Haugen

  Triumph, Elegance, Certain

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 148, 1999.

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• Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.

  J. Martin Klotsche

  Hate, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• The University of Chicago is an astounding place. It's Yeshiva, a priesthood. It gives you an education, but more than that it gives you a mission. Oh, and an arrogance. But being Canadian helps with that.

  Grant David McCracken

  Giving, Helping

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and fuels me. It's ruined me because nobody cares about these issues, and then it's the source of most of my storytelling now, because I am so preoccupied with it. It fuels me, because this is my outrage. I do believe in that great tradition of literature and storytelling. You know, the downfall and the folly of it all.

  Larry Fessenden

  Believe, People, Literature

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

  Edna Ferber

  Self Confidence, People, Empty Places

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Light, Way, Certain

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• When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

  Lucy Freeman

  Frightened, Snob

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• People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

  Russell Crowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

  "At Home With His Range". Interview with Amy Wallace, articles.latimes.com. October 31, 1999.

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• I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

  Brian Molko

  Thinking, Insecurity, Deals

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• I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

  James Corden

  Sometimes, Over Confidence

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

  Samuel Johnson

  Miscarriage, Despair, Weakness

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The rambler”, p.263

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• The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rome, Land, Political

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• The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Believe, Science, Giving

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• The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

  Brennan Manning

  Revenge, Two, Spirituality

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• The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Humility, Opposites

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• It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Men, Glasses

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.642

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