Quote

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

Criss Jami

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Criss Jami
Denial
Mistakes
Confidence
Pride
Mistake
Turns

More quotes by Criss Jami

Image
Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.
Criss Jami
Image
Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
Criss Jami
Image
When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?
Criss Jami
Image
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
Criss Jami
Image
Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes but so is longing to be envied.
Criss Jami
Image
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
Criss Jami
Image
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
Criss Jami
Image
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
Criss Jami
Image
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.
Criss Jami
Image
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
Criss Jami
Image
To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.
Criss Jami
Image
It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.
Criss Jami
Image
Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.
Criss Jami
Image
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
Criss Jami
Image
The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
Criss Jami
Image
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Criss Jami
Image
Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
Criss Jami
Image
As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.
Criss Jami
Image
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
Criss Jami
Image
It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.
Criss Jami