brianshark Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 A healthy dose of arrogance, while it may make a few enemies, will certainly help you succeed in life. This is not an ideal world, and nice guys do tend to finish last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 The appreciation of one's own superiority is best expressed silently. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimG Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 A healthy dose of arrogance, while it may make a few enemies, will certainly help you succeed in life. I think there is a big difference between confidence and arrogance. Where ever arrogance would help you succeed in life, I expect confidence would also get the job done, perhaps even get the job done better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 The problem with the arrogant is not that they know what is best for themselves, but they are also certain they know what is best for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_KARLUK Posted December 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Personally, agreed with Al U Card and especially with TimG. I carefully noted whole quotes here not to skip any point. For sure, everybody tried to do best and I appreciate. Anyhow, I dunno fits or not, I remembered our coach reading a book that i coincidentially looked when i was a studious, earnest swimmer in my younghood. To me such interesting views :“We tend to live up to our expectations.” “We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.” Earl Nightingale (US motivational writer and author, 1921-1989) SincerelyHamdi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceptic Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Are there a single word in English explains "exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner" ? Any good reason to be so ? boss ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 If you truly are superior in some way, it's not unreasonable to be proud. E.g. Olympic medalists don't have to be humble. What's considered a negative trait is being rude or overbearing about it, rubbing it in other people's faces. "Nyah, nyah, I won the Spingold and you didn't!" And if you don't even deserve it, that's pomposity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOL Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 No doubt you have your reasons for asking a question to which you already know the answer. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianshark Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Is there any intrinsic difference between confidence and arrogance? I believe it is one single quality in a person that is interpreted differently by onlookers. People who appreciate that quality in someone call it confidence and people who resent that quality in someone call it arrogance. I know we'd all like to believe that people who are good at what they do can get the accolades they deserve while being humble to the point of anonymity. But the real world is a rat race and you have to flaunt your success to get the recognition you deserve the majority of the time. The more you try to be proud of your successes, the more likely you are to find people who resent your arrogance. It's up to everyone to simply find the balance that works for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Is there any intrinsic difference between confidence and arrogance? Confidence is a valid expectation based on experience.Arrogance is intolerance of competing ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimG Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Is there any intrinsic difference between confidence and arrogance? Yes. A world of difference, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Is there any intrinsic difference between confidence and arrogance? Confidence is a valid expectation based on experience.Arrogance is intolerance of competing ideas. Confidence doesn't need to be valid and arrogance doesn't need to be intolerant. For example, I can see how you get to these mistake but they once again show that my understanding of the English language is far superior to yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Are there a single word in English explains "exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner" ? Any good reason to be so ? Wandering late into this one... I will (humbly) suggest that the word "pompous" is a close match Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Is there any intrinsic difference between confidence and arrogance? Confidence is a valid expectation based on experience.Arrogance is intolerance of competing ideas. Confidence doesn't need to be valid and arrogance doesn't need to be intolerant. For example, I can see how you get to these mistake but they once again show that my understanding of the English language is far superior to yours. Asshole :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Sarcastic repartee is hardly flatulent... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_KARLUK Posted December 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 I am sorry, due to some connex problems i saw my post listed twice on final check. So I deleted duplicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_KARLUK Posted December 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 If you truly are superior in some way, it's not unreasonable to be proud. E.g. Olympic medalists don't have to be humble. What's considered a negative trait is being rude or overbearing about it, rubbing it in other people's faces. "Nyah, nyah, I won the Spingold and you didn't!" And if you don't even deserve it, that's pomposity. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of protons or lead ions, each moving at approximately 99.999999% of the speed of light. The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesised Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry. 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, it lies underneath the Franco-Swiss border between the Jura Mountains and the Alps near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories. In particle physics, the Higgs boson is a massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model. The Higgs mechanism, which gives mass to vector bosons, was theorized in 1964 by François Englert and Robert Brout ("boson scalaire"); in October of the same year by Peter Higgs, working from the ideas of Philip Anderson; and independently by Gerald Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and Tom Kibble, who worked out the results by the spring of 1963. The three papers written on this discovery by Guralnik, Hagen, Kibble, Higgs, Brout, and Englert were each recognized as milestone papers during Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration. Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam were the first to apply the Higgs mechanism to the electroweak symmetry breaking. The electroweak theory predicts a neutral particle whose mass is not far from that of the W and Z bosons. On 10 September 2008, the proton beams were successfully circulated in the main ring of the LHC for the first time. On 19 September 2008, the operations were halted due to a serious fault between two superconducting bending magnets. The LHC will not be operational again until summer 2009. The LHC was officially inaugurated on 21 October 2008, in the presence of political leaders, science ministers from CERN's 20 Member States, CERN officials, and members of the worldwide scientific community. So do you really think those people have time to boast ? In my opinion not. Because it never helps to fix problems they see after 14 years and $10 billion. They might be only very busy with scientifically experimenting about the unknown universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Well that may all be true but last summer I was sitting in a bar in Italy with a guy who works at CERN and he kept going on about how they had the largest accelerator and the smartest particle phycisists and Higgs this and proton that, he was quite annoying to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Are there a single word in English explains "exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner" ? prom-queen-esque Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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