Twyla Tharp Quotes

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

Be careful of hubris about ideas—especially your own. Remember always, that there is one commonality between all the good ideas that were ever created and all the bad ideas: The people you created them thought that they were good ideas.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

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

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

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

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.