#arrogance

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write. ↗

— Richard Hugo

#artists #poet #poetry #poets #writer

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#appearances #arrogance #arrogant #beautiful #beauty

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arrogance #atheism #modesty #religion #solipsism

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#any #arrogance #been #claim #extraordinary

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. ↗

— Ross Perot

#balanced #budget #controlled #debt #officials

Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see. ↗

— Al-Ghazali

#arrogance #cheating #conceit #egoism #gossiping

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ↗

— James Robertson

#arrogance #aspirations #entitlement #perception #youth

What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it? ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#character #evil-men #moral-courage #courage

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#ignorance #politicians #politics #career

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#immaturity #inexperience #education