Humbling Quotes - Page 3

• I think I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film.

  Hamish Linklater

  Hate, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

  Rob Sheffield

  People, Brave, Failing

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time”, Crown

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• I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

  Bill Nye

  Discovery, Years, Research And Development

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.4, St. Martin's Press

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• ...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.

  Dar Williams

  Trying, Soup, Flattering

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• It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

  Rachael Ray

  Hard Work, Thinking, Long

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• Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

  Diane Ackerman

  Technology, Hurricanes, Reminders

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• Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

  Diane Keaton

  Children, Believe, Parenting

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• And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

  Ashley Judd

  Basketball, Kentucky, Wind

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• Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.

  Anne Lamott

  Divorce, Vacation, Journey

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• It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

  Hugh Howey

  Loss, Blow, Illusion

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.

  Warren Sapp

  Years, Water, Hardest

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• Being asked to serve as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling. The chance to make a real difference is not an opportunity that everyone is given and is one I have no intention of taking lightly. Women’s rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can’t imagine an opportunity more exciting. I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role.

  Emma Watson

  Real, Opportunity, Rights

  "UN Women announces Emma Watson as Goodwill Ambassador". www.unwomen.org. July 8, 2014.

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• It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

  Michael Emerson

  Practice, Play, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, People

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• You don't like to see your guys take the field without you because it makes you feel like, man, maybe they really don't need me out there, which is kind of humbling.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Men, Nfl

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• What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we can only imagine. These places have teachers who are living and dead and we are lucky to have them. If I sit here and read Aristotle, he is speaking to me across a thousand years - more than a thousand years. That sense that I am in the company of the great greatest people who ever lived is a humbling experience but a liberating experience.

  Pete Hamill

  Teacher, Past, Years

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• It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the distance between a Type 0 and a Type III civilisation - a factor of 100 billion billion, in fact. Yet we have such a highly regarded view of ourselves, we believe a Type III civilisation would find us irresistible and would rush to make contact with us. The truth is, however, they may be as interested in communicating with humans as we are keen to communicate with ants.

  Michio Kaku

  Distance, Believe, Communication

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• It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

  Ani DiFranco

  Mistake, Empowering, Boss

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Humbling Experiences, Position

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• It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Animal, Grandchildren, Thinking

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• It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.

  Dinah Shore

  Sports, Golf, Guy

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• Gardening is a humbling experience.

  Martha Stewart

  Garden, Experience, Essentials

  Martha Stewart (1991). “Martha Stewart's gardening, month by month”, Clarkson Potter

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• Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Strong, Humility, Eye

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.160, Univ of California Press

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• The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Believe, Humility, Humble

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• ~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

  Amanda Peet

  Parenting, Motherhood, Cuddling

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