“If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.”

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Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician 1944

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.”

LeBron James (1984) American basketball player

“You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Source: Song Paper Thin Hotel

“I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.”

Juliette Binoche (1964) French actress

Quoted at Juliette Binoche: The Art of Being http://juliettebinoche.net, her official website

“This trendy, new crowd, which likes to do everything with committees, really believes that all it takes to make anything legal and OK is a majority. I guess they call that democracy. When the majority is what it has become in the United States today, a better name is mobocracy. But really, it's much worse than mob rule. It is rule by a self-appointed elite of utterly evil and destructive people who have in their hands the tools for controlling and guiding the mob. They're pretty cocky now -- so cocky, in fact, that they're making statements of the sort I've quoted today. They're cocky because they believe that no one can take away from them their tools for controlling the mob, and that as time passes and America becomes darker and more degenerate, their grip on the mob will only become firmer. Our job is to prove them wrong. It's a big job, and we'd better get started.”

William Luther Pierce (1933–2002) American white nationalist

The New World Order, 1999.
1990s, 1990

“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight

Source: A Stroke of Midnight

“If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

“Is it wrong to pray for God to make me more successful so that I can be more humble?”

Robert J. Marks II (1950) American electrical engineering researcher and intelligent design advocate

If "knowledge puffs up," then we professors are in ever-present danger of having egos resembling threatened blow fish. <br class="br"> "Pascal's Prayer,", Robert J. Marks II, 2006-10-06, 2010-04-22 http://www.okstatefcfs.org/ministryminutes/10_9_2006Marks.htm,

“One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.”

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