“In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.” WellsMightSportsCommunityChallengesPrideResponseStrangerRepresentationClans Author:John Thorn
“It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.” NeedsWellsMatterDoneFilmPurposePerfectPrideShotsOneselfCompromiseMonumentGet It Done Author:Irvin Kershner
“Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.” PeopleWayWellsAbleOrderSubjectsHumilityPrideThousandConquerTransformingStoopsArtifice Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWellsChallengesEducationStupidMinesPrideFoolClaimsCriticizePresumptuousMarius Author:Leonardo da Vinci