Own Importance Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come…
— Bill Walsh
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to…
— Joseph Priestley
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All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own…
— Francois Truffaut
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we…
— Augustus Hare
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When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did…
— Diane Setterfield
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It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to…
— Richard Rohr
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We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we…
— Neil Strauss
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One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes
— Ayn Rand
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There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes,…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the city so she…
— Rick Riordan
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Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate…
— G. H. Hardy
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little…
— Graham Greene
Who Wrote These Own Importance Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Own Importance Quotes as follows: