Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.
People are way too optimistic about the power they assume they have got to control how they are being perceived. They don't realize that none of the armours they wear is free of holes!
(n.) Excessive confidence; too great reliance or trust.
What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don't know they're con men. They're wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience--that's part of the mythology that surrounds the Special For...
A shell in the pit, said I, if the worst comes to worst will kill them all.The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner ta...
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard a...
Don't be too obvious about it.
I have a cunning plan.
Never believe you are the best, but believe you are one of the best.
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.