#arrogance

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#arrogance #best #connotations #cover #fixed

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#combined #ego #get #huge #long

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#decisive #factors #successful #talent #timing

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#best #bring #call #course #gets

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. ↗

— James A. Michener

#artist #fortifies #profound #thing #very

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#arrogance #been #employ #forget #given

When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It’s often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#self-righteousness #life

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#arrogant #because #believe #chest #controlled

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

#also #arrogance #basic #country #disagree

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#first #had #i #out #started