Unassuming Attitude Quotes

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

I think of myself as a shy, modest, relatively unassuming person.

I'm a chill guy, a very normal guy.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

I've always prided myself on being the lowest-profile member of the Bush family.

I may be boring, but that's okay; I don't want to hard-sell myself.

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.

In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all.

I don't see myself as some television star; I see myself as a girl from Albany.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

My friends kidded me about going so far on such modest talent. I always agreed with them. I had no illusions about my films, nor did I consider myself anything special as an actor or a singer.

I joke with people - and Kyle Shanahan used to say this - that my swagger is having no swagger, but that kind of becomes my thing.

My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.

Tim is old school. He plays that way. That's why a lot of fans identify more with a Tim Heskett than with someone who is more dynamic. The more dynamic guy might be more pleasing to the eye, but he doesn't contribute any more to his team winning than Tim does.

By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.

People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.

Live like you're at the bottom, even if you're at the top

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

We've grown up with the idea that even when you're at the top, act like you're at the bottom.

I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn't want to become a writer - it just happened.

I'm not in this league to be an All-Star. I'm not in this league to make the Hall of Fame. I'm not in this league to make the all-defensive team.

I think a lot of people who maybe know me from one video or come upon me randomly think I'm stuck-up because I'm blonde, or the way I come off, or from something I might have said. But everybody who actually knows me knows that I'm very down-to-earth and super chill.

I really don't look at my life as being an accomplishment. I'm just very thankful for what I've been given.