Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.
I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.
I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.
Thinking you're a genius is death.
False confidence is false confidence.
There is a long history of research showing that people are overconfident about their abilities. But it turns out that people in general are not overconfident about their abilities; people with a fixed mindset are overconfident.
We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.
When I made my first film, I was arrogant and over-confident.
