Youthful Arrogance Quotes

• So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

  Goldie Hawn

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Curiosity

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2006.

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• Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Arrogance, Merit, Offensive

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

  Juvenal

  Globes

  Juvenal (1967). “The Sixteen Satires”

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• Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

  James D. Watson

  Travel, Moving, Adventure

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• Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

  Simon Sinek

  Believe, Inspire, Arrogance

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Aug 01, 2011

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• The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

  Roy Haynes

  Leader, Musician, Energy

  Interview with Beatrice Richardson, www.jazzreview.com. March 1, 2004.

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• It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

  Antony Beevor

  Mother, Jobs, Writing

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• One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Important, Modern, Haircuts

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• Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness, an impatience with sloppy thinking can naturally to both of us.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Thinking, Arrogance

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