Laurel Van Ness Quotes

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

Everybody in the world knows how good I am.

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.