Jamal Crawford

I feel like I can get any shot I want. That's not to sound cocky or conceited. It's because I've played basketball basically every day of my life. So at some point, I've taken just about every shot there is. I've figured out the angles, almost like a pool shark. I know where to use the glass, which dribble I need and which spot I want to reach.

American Athlete

Kourtney Kardashian

Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

American Celebrity

Willa Cather

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

American Author

Zoe Kravitz

In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.

American Actress

David Leitch

Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game; it's more that being a spy sucks. But we're going to make it fun to watch.

American Actor

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

English Actor

Rory MacLean

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.

Canadian Historian

James Laughlin

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

American Poet

John Wooden

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

American Coach

Frank Shamrock

Am I cocky or conceited? I'm definitely cocky. But at the root is confidence and humility.

American Mixed Martial Artist

Using 'conceit' in this sense often implies criticism of someone's excessive pride.

Negative Connotation

'Conceit' can evoke strong emotions when describing someone's inflated self-image.

Emotionally Charged

Calling someone 'full of conceit' may be offensive and should be used with caution.

Often Offensive

'Conceit' in literature shows creativity, making unexpected connections between different things.

Literary Creativity

Literary 'conceit' can be difficult to understand without context; learning the theme helps.

Complex Thought

'Conceit' can involve unique comparisons that are not clichés but original expressions.

Unique Comparisons

In storytelling, a 'conceit' can shape the narrative and create a memorable twist.

Storytelling Device

'Conceit' in this context often signals the artist's unique vision or creative approach.

Artistic Originality

'Conceit' can surprise the audience, providing a new angle on familiar concepts.

Evokes Surprise

 Now, who today would claim that as a mere conceit of the human mind? That the force that causes the apple to fall to the ground is the same force that causes the planets and the moon to move around, and so on? Everybody knows that. It's a property of gravitation.

Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty...

 suspended in a sunbeam. It's been said that astronomy's a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility

Why we need the...

 have found although it's really nothing more than a literary conceit it's not a technology is very powerful for I think changing our relationship to the natural world and to the other species on whom we depend and that tool is very simply

A plant's-eye view -...

 She started every interview this Dolly Ask me whatever you ask me, and I'm going to tell you what I want you to hear. She is undeniably a force of nature. But the problem that I ran into is that I had chosen a conceit for this series

How Dolly Parton led me...

 is a fable and warning about the power of language. According to that story, early humans developed the conceit that, by using their language to work together, they could build a tower that would take them all the way to heaven.

Mark Pagel: How language...

 and tell you about a tool, a very simple tool that I have found. Although it's really nothing more than a literary conceit; it's not a technology. It's very powerful for, I think, changing our relationship to the natural world

Michael Pollan: A...

 You fence in animals. You electrify the inside. He doesn't. He electrifies only the outside. Why? Because he said to me that he felt like the geese -- and he proved this actually, not just a conceit, he proved this --

Dan Barber: A surprising...

 I've wasted a lot of time worrying about how I am perceived. If I ask a lot of questions, will you find me combative? If I tell you about an accomplishment I'm proud of, you might think I'm conceited.

The Likability Dilemma...

 "There is perhaps no better demonstration "of the folly of human conceits "than this distant image of our tiny world. "To me, it underscores our responsibility "to deal more kindly with one another,

After the Avalanche:...

 Now, this is one model of how language comes to namely, it's legislated by an academy. But anyone who looks at language realizes that this is a rather silly conceit,