William Devane

I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough to be in the movies. It's a very political world. In all modesty, I can say that I'm a much better actor, but that doesn't matter.

American Actor

Nam June Paik

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

American Artist

Ben Hecht

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

American Writer

Gad Elmaleh

Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

Moroccan Comedian

Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Dutch Architect

Chris Evans

Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.

Marquis de Sade

Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

French Novelist

Edith Sitwell

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

British Poet

Alex Kapranos

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

Scottish Musician

Rain

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

South Korean Musician

Modesty involves downplaying one's achievements or abilities, often to be polite or avoid seeming arrogant.

Self-restraint

The expectation of modesty can vary widely across cultures, affecting how one should express their abilities.

Cultural Variation

Modesty can manifest as understatement where one intentionally minimizes the importance of something.

Understatement

Modesty in dress means wearing attire that's considered respectful by not drawing undue attention.

Respectful Dressing

Modesty varies with personal feelings on what is appropriate to wear without feeling self-conscious.

Personal Comfort

Observe modesty in appearance based on social and situational contexts to show respect and awareness.

Social Sensitivity

 the modesty of her sentiment like the earhart women who came before and after her says volumes did amelia's work mean something to women in aviation diana trujido answers that question definitively her work at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory is a direct extension of a history that amelia helped to build

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 So you mentioned your expertise in innovation. You have a couple of lines of -- how to say it? -- of exquisite modesty in the book where you say you think like an engineer, you don't know much about politics, but actually you talk to top politicians more than any of us.

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 twice the rate as women because men think they can swim across that lake but some people have the ability and awareness of their own biases their own overconfidence they have a pistola logical modesty they are open-minded in the face of ambiguity they are able to adjust

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 This is a gender-linked trait, by the way. Men drown at twice the rate of women, because men think they can swim across that lake. But some people have the ability and awareness of their own biases, their own overconfidence. They have epistemological modesty.

David Brooks: The social...

 that her privacy was respected and that the privacy of the other campers was respected. So her changing was handled separately. And you asked Sadie's parents, you need to have a bathing suit that affords her more modesty than maybe other girls. Exactly.

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 because they play music and drums and things that she must burst into tears and cry hysterically in order to honor her father and to say I don't want to leave dad you know and also as a sign of modesty that she had no interest in

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 insecurities are key to keep us modest humble and there are many advantages to modesty it keeps us attentive to negative feedback which means that we are more coachable it also stops us from being complacent and it also make us

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 is riddled with disastrous examples of times that one school or the other tried to explain the past or predict the future and just did an awful, awful job, so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.

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 doing and everybody's hooked up in certain churches this is known as being slain in spirit the women are covered with sheets to protect their modesty when they fall

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 well done Hosanna then Thank You Sebastian for the modesty with which you were shooting this particular scene

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