Over Confident Quotes

• If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.

  Du Mu

  Military, Order, Discipline

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• There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Risk, Faces

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• A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident.

  Gary L. Blackwood

  Littles, Fellows

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• We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'

  Errol White

  Jumping, Progress, Paleontology

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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Children

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• I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

  Molly Ringwald

  Teenager, Insecure, Emotional

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• Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.

  William Feather

  Mistake, Men

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• If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

  Tom Chatfield

  Men, Machines, Levels

  "Forget artificial intelligence. It's artificial idiocy we need to worry about" by Tom Chatfield, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2014.

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