Vaclav Smil Quotes

I'm not great at talking about myself.

I'm not that interesting!

I'm not that interesting of a person.

I've never felt like I had anything important to say.

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

I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say.

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.

I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.

What the heck did people see in me?

I don't like talking about myself.

I never had a preconceived notion about what I should do or what I should take up… I am not that intelligent.

I don't think there's anything interesting about me.

When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.

I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

I don't really think of myself as stupid - but then, who does?

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.