Matt Barnes Quotes

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

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

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

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.

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.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

All complaining comes from pride.

Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

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.

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

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

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Why do you all push us around?

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

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

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

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.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.