{"quotes":[{"text":"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.","author":"Robert Burns","tags":["certainty","cockiness","ignorance","knowledge","wisdom"],"id":27369,"author_id":"Robert+Burns"},{"text":"Act as if you don't know me, and I will make it seem as though you don't exist.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["abysmal","attitude","bad-attitude","cockiness","ego","egocentricity","haughtiness","haughty","my-life","myself","negative-attitude","negative-behaviour","not-by-force","pretence","pride","repudiation","self-centred","self-love","self-obsession","selfishness","shun","snob","vexation"],"id":40595,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["arrogance","blood","boasting","boldness","bolster","cockiness","confidence","ego","escalate","escalation","gut","guts","king","michael-bassey-johnson","pride","self-love","vanity","veins"],"id":42836,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","cockiness","disrespect","fame","high-shoulders","ignorance","ignorant","insult","insults","madness","michael-bassey-johnson","popularity","pride","selfish","selfishness","unpopularity"],"id":51002,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","brand","branding","business","career","character","cockiness","company","corporation","dishonesty","distrust","ethics","genius","good-will","good-works","goodness","honesty","humility","illegal","job","kindness","lawful","legal","love","message","morality","nice","poor","pride","reputation","rich","robbery","scam","scandal","scheme","shady","skill","success","talent","trust","unlawful","wisdom","work"],"id":56344,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience as a system administrator, struggling with Byzantine software installations, had prevented hum from plummeting into despair and simply giving up. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.","author":"Neal Stephenson","tags":["cockiness","computers","persistence","sysadmins"],"id":65270,"author_id":"Neal+Stephenson"},{"text":"A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["answers","arrogance","blurred","clarity","cockiness","influence","solid"],"id":99667,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"You're seeing yourself as having missed the target already. That's your fear. That's hurting you. But then you got yourself seeing all your shots being bulls eyes. That's your confidence. It's making you cocky. It's making you think you're infallible. See? That's hurting you too. Don't think of yourself as already defeated. Don't think of yourself as already won. Just concentrate on what you're doing. Think about now.","author":"Ben Willoughby","tags":["cockiness","concentration","fear","pride"],"id":123771,"author_id":"Ben+Willoughby"},{"text":"Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["activity","arrogance","attitude","calmness","cockiness","condescend","display","empty","greatness","hero","humble","humility","lifestyle","pride","quiet","show-off","shut-up","yourself","zero"],"id":137920,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["adult","adulthood","background","bad-boys","callow","cockiness","corruption","disrespect","down-to-earth","emptiness","empty","enlightened","enlightenment","experience","gentleman","gentlemen","humility","immaturity","insensitive","insensitivity","ladies","lady","madness","maturity","modesty","option","puberty","puerile","reckless","rude","rudeness","ruthless","sensibility","sensible","teen","teenagers","unconscious","vanity","young","young-people","youth"],"id":147148,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}