Arrogant Quotes - Page 10

• In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

  Nelson Mandela

  Jail, Arrogance, Enemy

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.

  David Cross

  Funny, Humor, Pompous

  "David Cross: The Pride Is Back". TV Special, September 18, 1999.

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• I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way.

  Victoria Beckham

  Humble, Thinking, Way

  "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

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• I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Faults, Impatient

  Benjamin Britten, Paul Francis Kildea (2003). “On Music”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Being champion is just priceless. I'm not trying to sound arrogant or anything but being Olympic champ, you have every country coming together and competing. Doing what they do best, getting awards, money. Coming together and competing in the most competitive way possible with the best from all these different countries on Earth and winning. To me that's priceless.

  Henry Cejudo

  Country, Winning, Awards

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• I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

  Claude Monet

  Finishing, Canvas, Claims

  Claude Monet (1983). “Claude Monet at the time of Giverny”

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• My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.

  Diana Trilling

  Careers, May, Common

  Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

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• Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

  Sam Donaldson

  Jobs, People, Needs

  Sam Donaldson (1988). “Hold On, Mr. President”, Fawcett Books

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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Children

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• When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. "High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college." But it's true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Bullying, School, College

  "The Messy Reality of High School Hazing" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2009.

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• Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Nice, Action, Being Nice

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.15, Random House

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• I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted.

  Roger Zelazny

  Mean, Important, Littles

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• As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

  Garson Kanin

  Self Confidence, Doubt, Cases

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• The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Ideas, Issues, Judgement

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 38, 1949.

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• Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.

  Georg Brandes

  Space, Envy, Hatred

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.22, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Government, Safety, Intellectual

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.105, Lulu.com

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• Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of touch, she truly doesn't know who she is. This is one of the greatest tragedies of shame cover-ups: not only does the person hide from others, she also hides from herself.

  John Bradshaw

  Arrogant Person, Years, Arrogance

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.123, Health Communications, Inc.

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• What is more arrogant than honesty?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Honesty

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.147, Penguin

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• I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.

  Donald Miller

  Self Esteem, Believe, Talking

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.127, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Overwhelmed, Youth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.

  Todd Solondz

  Self, Ideas, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Weakness, Politics

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• Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Believe, People, Arrogance

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• I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.

  Brandi Carlile

  Art, Next, Advertising

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be‘". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Feelings, Doubt

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.124, Lulu.com

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