Gavin Esler

Americans, apparently, either do nothing about the world's problems, in which case they are ignorant and isolationist, selfish and gutless, or they try to do something about the world's problems, in which case they are arrogant and naive, greedy and bullying.

Scottish Journalist

Guy Laliberte

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

Canadian Businessman

Leo Tolstoy

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

Russian Novelist

Grayson Allen

Half of the basketball world thinks I'm this hothead, dirty player who can't get anything under control and probably thinks I'm arrogant and a selfish guy.

American Athlete

George M. Church

It sounds a little bit too arrogant, but I think I certainly have a working model for how I conduct my life, and it may or may not be a correct worldview.

American Scientist

Francesca Annis

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

English Actress

Gerhard Richter

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.

German Artist

Samuel Butler

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

British Poet

Noel Gallagher

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

English Musician

Teemu Pukki

If I see someone that's too arrogant, that's not how I was raised.

Finnish Athlete

Arrogant has a negative meaning; it suggests someone is unpleasantly proud and behaving badly.

Negative Connotation

In some cultures, being direct or self-assured might be mistakenly seen as arrogance.

Cultural Perception

Using 'arrogant' can imply someone is being dismissive or superior to others.

Social Context

 We've made it about changing the world. We've taken this title of "leader" and treat it as something that one day we're going to deserve. But to give it to ourselves right now means a level of arrogance or cockiness that we're not comfortable with. And I worry sometimes that we spend so much time celebrating amazing things that hardly anybody can do,

Drew Dudley: Everyday...

 Ray I can say with absolute certainty that if you look at the liquidity base in the corporations and the world as a whole, that there's such reduced level of liquidity that you can't return to an era of stagflation." I look at that now, I think, "What an arrogant jerk!"

How to build a company...

 Ta-dah! Maybe the reason for thr creation of the universe, and all the galaxies, and all the planets, and all the energy, and all the dark energy, and all the rest of stuff is to create what's in this room. Maybe not. That would be a mildly arrogant viewpoint.

The next species of...

 the science I think it's politics people are so arrogant to think they can change climate the environmental issues have become the biggest reason for mass demonstrations we want to hold them accountable this is the most important issue of our

Before the Flood -...

 incompetent to imagine if you'd come up to my friend and said that was great and she look to you and said seriously Wow I mean you get out the house much or what right how arrogant how absurd would that sound what should she say in that

Thinking your way out of...

 it's basically just right, left, right, left, yeah? I mean, we've been doing it for two million years, so it's kind of arrogant to assume that I've got something to say that hasn't been said and performed better a long time ago.

Are we born to run? PIPE...

 Our social, political and economic systems of extraction must be transformed into systems that regenerate the earth and advance human liberty globally. It is arrogance to think that technology will save us.

Climate change will...

 His targets were arrogant politicians, war-mongering generals, and self-important intellectuals, exactly the people who sat in the front row of the theatre, where everyone could see their reactions.

Why is Aristophanes...

 Instead of lofty love stories, her characters act naturally, and often awkwardly. They trade pragmatic advice, friendly jokes and not-so-friendly barbs about their arrogant peers.

The wicked wit of Jane...

 there are few animals in the world there was arrogant to human presence as