Samantha Power Quotes

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

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

When I made my first film, I was arrogant and over-confident.

I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.

When you're young, you're cocky.

I was working in the same building as U.S. News & World Report, and I banged on the door and said, "I'm ready to go." And they said, "What's your combat experience?" I said, "Does my parents' divorce count? It was pretty rough." Then they said, "What's your reporting experience?" And I said, "I covered the women's volleyball team in college exceptionally well." The guy was like, "You are so not ready to be a war correspondent."

Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS

After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.

And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.