"Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery."

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Jeremy Collier

#Confidence Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Self Quotes

“Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.”

Source : "Caterpillar CEO: Higher taxes do not stimulate anything". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.
“The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.”
“I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.”

Source : "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.
“Habit is overcome by habit.”
“Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.”
“Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.”
“Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut.”
“Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.”

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