Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

I can't assume that people see me the way I see myself. I have to show them. But I can't do it in a way where it's too much, where it's rude. I feel like when you're a king, you lead. And I just see myself as a king, or as something more than just a regular human being.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.