Robin Trower Quotes

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

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

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

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

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

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

Talent is often a defect in character.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

I don't ever want to feel complacent.

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

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

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

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

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