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Topic: Arrogance


In the News (Wed 10 Feb 10)

  
  Michael Teachings - On Arrogance
Arrogance can portray itself as "just being honest," often as the lone voice speaking the hard truth that no one else wants to hear; it views itself as special and uniquely equipped to see it, in compensation for all the criticism it received that made it feel demeaned.
Arrogance is divisive and isolating ("It's lonely at the top."), which is especially rough on sages, the most social of the roles.
Arrogance might be chosen, in part, because it gives the person a chance to let off some of this excess steam.
www.michaelteachings.com /arrogance_shep.html   (3212 words)

  
 Arrogance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arrogance is doubly a pity, because the talents of the arrogant serve primarily themselves.
In another form of spiritual arrogance, the true believer aggressively proselytizes, pushing his own path as the one and only way, browbeating people by claiming that they will not be saved without the chosen path, or that they are misguided.
This is the antidote to arrogance and its second greatest fear: to be an ordinary person.
www.innerfrontier.org /Practices/Arrogance.htm   (526 words)

  
 Letters Readers Respond About Arrogance
Arrogance is indeed a virus that infects the physics community, and I've seen its insidious effects on the career choices of generations of students, particularly women and other underrepresented groups.
Much will depend on whether we as physical scientists opt for the path of arrogance, or moderate it with a recognition that physics is only one component of the totality of human knowledge.
Because arrogance and self-confidence seem intimately re­lated even though one is bad and the other is good, I chose to blur the distinction.
www.zainea.com /arrogance.htm   (8388 words)

  
 Prohibition of Arrogance
Arrogance is one of the most dangerous inner diseases of the heart.
It is also an evidence that arrogance is from the diseases of the heart, and an evidence that the degree of arrogance varies.
From arrogance is being arrogant against the messengers and rejecting their message and not following them just because they are human.
www.islam1.org /khutub/Arrogance_Prohibited.htm   (967 words)

  
 Arrogance is a bad trait in a programmer
I'll even argue that arrogance in a programmer is inversely proportional to their talent.
However, with apologies to Wall Street, Arrogance, for the lack of a better word, is horrible.
Arrogance closes your options, since the Arrogant Programmer refuses to accept that there are others with an alternative approach.
distribucon.com /blog/archive/2005/02/06/458.aspx   (1222 words)

  
 The Ghost of a flea
The link between the critics of American "arrogance" and the murderous nihilism at work in the world is thought through by Arthur Silbur of The Light of Reason.
"Arrogance" was the specific word used by the interviewer to suggest a possible cause of the disaster.
Sawyer clearly denied the charge of "arrogance" and suggested that at most a kind of over-confidence in a proven and reliable technology may have been a factor.
ghostofaflea.blogspot.com /2003_01_26_ghostofaflea_archive.html   (2836 words)

  
 Don Box's Spoutlet
Arrogance or Stupidity?Specifically I guess wrt to the kind of people that are going to help a company succeed (or fail).I'm not really sure what the answer is, partly because I don't have a moral basis for determining 'success', but here's a few musings:I don't like the way people use the word arrogance.
Arrogance is not a bad thing, it is the result of someone 'externalising' their self-esteem.
Arrogance is a form of laziness in interaction with others and thus is disrespectful and anti-social.
channel9.msdn.com /ShowPost.aspx?PostID=4500   (3533 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Passion v. Arrogance: A Dana & Goliath Story of Wine, Women and Wrong!: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arrogance" details the results these women faced from the business world, as well as revealing the excitement, the commitment, the dedication, the hard work, and the dream that they (like all aspiring entrepreneurs) must possess when they start a commercial venture.
Arrogance" also chronicles the inevitable changes in relationships, fluctuating economic times, and just how government involvement with a financial institution's operation in a private venture caused a cascading of ultimately disastrous actions leading to the demise of a once promising and successful entreprenurial venture.
Arrogance" is informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, and from first page to last, a truly great read.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0976259761?v=glance   (1935 words)

  
 Jake Allen's Ockhamist.com: Liberal Arrogance
The Liberal Arrogance is that the Liberal establishment does not believe that Conservatives are capable of understanding or debate and so, like children, they must be tolerated while enlightened grown-ups go on running things in the best interests of everybody.
This arrogance is the self-defeating characteristic of modern American Liberalism.
I would also suggest that the (quite common) accusation of arrogance that supposedly many liberals possess is in fact thinly veiled class warfare on the part of those making such accusations.
www.ockhamist.com /archives/2004/08/liberal_arrogan.html   (643 words)

  
 arrogance & humility
Arrogance is a state in which we are convinced that we have the right to be above others.
Arrogance becomes more dangerous when it is manifested and directed towards someone.
Seven qualities are considered to be the cause of pride: education, knowledge, religious piety, fame and nobility of one's family and descendents, physical attractiveness, physical strength, wealth, achievement, and the number of ones admirers and followers.
www.crescentlife.com /spirituality/arrogance_&_humility.htm   (1636 words)

  
 The consequences of Open Source Arrogance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arrogance is defined as "ignorance combined with ego".
When you write article acusing the free community of arrogance for ignoring technologies of Microsoft, you should be expected to explain these technologies and why they are so crucially important.
so i am often accused of arrogance when in fact the confidence in my specialist subjects that appears to be ego-driven comes instead from genuinely knowing what i am talking about.
www.advogato.org /article/595.html   (8816 words)

  
 Arrogance and Self-Loathing | Just a Gwai Lo
You need the arrogance to have the conviction that your work needs to go out into the world, but you have to have the self-doubt to allow you to look at the work critically and try to make it better.
I firmly believe that a good blogger must be torn between arrogance and self-loathing.
You need the arrogance to have the conviction that your weblog needs to go out into the world, but you have to have the self-doubt to allow you to look at the weblog critically and try to make it better.
www.justagwailo.com /filter/2003/08/13/arrogance-and-self-loathing   (253 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Arrogance: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"Arrogance" is a worthwhile novel, beautifully written, full of astute observations on art in general and Schiele in particular.
"Arrogance" is Joanna Scott's fictional account of Schiele's life, a parallax narrative that tells its tale from a series of changing and different perspectives.
"Arrogance" is a vivid and convincing portrait of the life and mind of the artist, a complex narrative that challenge the reader to understand and interpret that life from multiple perspectives, both biographical and imaginative.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393307921?v=glance   (1537 words)

  
 The Independent Weekly: Arrogance Reigns Supreme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Due to inexplicable record-industry disinterest in the early '80s, the collection of songs that captured Arrogance at the top of their game remained unreleased until recently.
There they are, the words you always hear when someone talks about Arrogance: a great live band.
The good news is that I now have a chance because Dixon, Kirkland, ace guitarist Rod Abernethy, keyboardist Marty Stout, and drummer Scott Davison--the lineup for Arrogance's last three recordings--have taken to playing out again, with a stop at Raleigh's Lincoln Theatre on Nov. 29.
www.indyweek.com /durham/2002-11-27/music2.html   (829 words)

  
 Unadulterated Arrogance
A friend of mine once commented that driving a vehicle with an automatic gear is like sleeping with a prostitute as there is no thrill in it.
The opinions expressed in these blogs are the official views of the voices in my head and not necessarily those of the author and hence I cannot be sued in a court of law - I will just plead insanity.
A mixture of style, class and substance; and no I'm not arrogant, besides arrogance is an imperfection and I'm perfect....
injinuity.blogspot.com /2005/02/automatic-gears-frills-but-no-thrills.html   (513 words)

  
 Way #29 Subtle Traps Of Arrogance
Arrogance is when you look down on others.
Arrogance about one's goodness is the most dangerous, because it is in the name of "goodness" that many of the world's most evil acts are performed.
The best medicine against arrogance is the realization that God put us on this earth to achieve great things.
www.aish.com /spirituality/48ways/Way_29_Subtle_Traps_Of_Arrogance.asp   (1571 words)

  
 Townhall.com Book Service: Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite by Bernard Goldberg
Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite goes far beyond simply identifying bias.
Arrogance is an unforgettable glimpse inside the oaken boardrooms of the media elite.
Arrogance is a significant step toward shaming our arrogant, self-serving liberal media elite into doing just that.
www.thbookservice.com /products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6351   (1170 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Arrogance by Bernard Goldberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rather, Arrogance paints a picture of journalists living in a cultural and political bubble and too arrogant to step outside that bubble and challenge their own assumptions.
What continues to bug Goldberg, and what motivates Arrogance, is that no matter how may examples one points to, and no matter how many Americans believe this to be true, the media elite simply refuses to face the issue.
I was late in catching "Arrogance" but in my spare time had been filing away mental Post-it notes about examples of the liberal distortions in main-stream media.
blogcritics.org /archives/2003/12/02/145746.php   (4695 words)

  
 K. Scott Allen : Arrogance
The podcasts were the Election 2004 session from BloggerCon III, and the Gillmor Gang’s interview with eBay tech evangelist Jeff McManus.
There was more than one voice in these shows demonstrating a self-important arrogance.
I've been accused of arrogance (and ignorance) over the past three years about RSS, and I suggest my enthusiasm for the disruptive aspects of the technology is now shared by many who thought I was nuts before.
odetocode.com /Blogs/scott/archive/2004/11/30/671.aspx   (675 words)

  
 Joho the Blog: Arrogance
If I had to guess, I'd say George W. Bush's arrogance is of the second kind while his administration's arrogance generally is of the first kind.
I get "arrogance" as "an inability to recognize ambiguity as a fact of the world" but I'm having trouble with the "rather than as a failure of the intellect" piece.
Ironic that bullheadedness can be marked as a bad trait ("arrogance") yet seems to be sometimes necessary to impel progress and keep so many conversations alive.
www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/001791.html   (1175 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: Irrelevant arrogance by Oliver North   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Japanese promptly withdrew from the League, declaring its deliberations to be "irrelevant." World War II had begun -- though it took the Europeans another seven years to understand.
This sad, but accurate historical lesson in arrogance and irrelevance is pertinent to what transpired at the League's successor -- the United Nations -- this week.
This arrogance flies in the face of Kerry's call to give the United Nations greater say in how we protect ourselves from terror -- much less any suggestion that American troops should again don blue berets.
www.townhall.com /columnists/ollienorth/on20040924.shtml   (803 words)

  
 Taste and Aesthetics
In Part I of this interview, which is being published in six weekly installments, Arnold explains why there's no such thing as a perfect design, suggests questions you should ask yourself when you design, and proposes the radical notion that programmers are people.
In this second installment, Arnold discusses the role of taste and arrogance in design, the value of other people's problems, and the virtue of simplicity.
But that kind of arrogance is a form of aesthetic.
www.artima.com /intv/taste.html   (474 words)

  
 Arrogance
Before there was Hootie, before there was R.E.M., there was Arrogance.
Dubbed the "fountainhead of North Carolina music" by the Raleigh News and Observer, Arrogance and its catchy pop- and folk-influenced tunes wormed their way into many of minds.
Dormant since 1983, Arrogance has reunited for select 2002 gigs while teaming with Gaff Music for a Best-of release.
www.gaffmusic.com /arrogance_home.html   (153 words)

  
 Wired 10.07: Start
An era of recession and scandal is no time to strut, so famously self-satisfied titans have been on an enforced holiday from preening overconfidence - at least in public.
Actually, yes: With the economy showing signs of life, arrogance is poised for a comeback.
When arrogance makes its certain comeback, those of us in the peanut gallery shouldn't put all the blame on imperious jerks; some of it belongs to us.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.07/start.html?pg=2   (687 words)

  
 Term Paper on Humility. Lear and Gloucester's JourneyBased on Shakespeare's King Lear. Describe King Lear and ...
Describe King Lear and Gloucester's journey from arrogance to humility and to eventual wisdom.
Throughout the play, it is seen that for a variety of reasons both King Lear and the Earl of Gloucester move from arrogance to humility and finally to wisdom.
This pair's arrogance is evident through their gullibility and rash decisions, their humility shown through their loss of power and resulting empathy and lastly, their wisdom displayed through remorse and reconciliation.
www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Humility_Lear_and_Gloucester-179704.html   (277 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Stem cell hopes distorted by 'arrogance and spin'
A leading scientist who pushed for the controversial research into embryo stem cells will warn today that the challenges are so huge that any cures for disease lie a long way in the future.
He singles out embryo stem cells as a case study in scientific arrogance and the dangers of "spinning" a good story.
Embryo stem cells are seen as medicine's version of the magic tablecloth.
www.guardian.co.uk /genes/article/0,2763,1562913,00.html   (706 words)

  
 Arrogance, Intellect, Philosophy, Aristotle, Right, Anger
You have an interesting arrogance to intellect ratio.
He discovered a meaningful relationship between arrogance and intellect.
Arrogance, Intellect, Philosophy; Aristotle believes that right anger is to be commended.
www.saliu.com /bbs/messages/357.html   (662 words)

  
 Senator J. William Fulbright on the Arrogance of Power, 1966
The attitude above all others which I feel sure is no longer valid is the arrogance of power, the tendency of great nations to equate power with virtue and major responsibilities with a universal mission.
The dilemmas involved are preeminently American di lemmas, not because America has weaknesses that others do not have but because America is powerful as no nation has ever been before and the discrepancy between its power and the power of others appears to be increasing....
It will involve, no doubt, the loss of certain glories, but that seems a price worth paying for the probable rewards, which are the happiness of America and the peace of the world.
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~hst306/documents/fulbright.html   (807 words)

  
 Inappropriate
But it is also a good description of all the confused discussion about "arrogance", about (here I go again, forgive me) "hearts and minds".
I went round and round with a friend in early October on the subject of American "arrogance".
His assumption was that they hate us because we are arrogant, and we are arrogant because we do such things as lob missiles at whomever and wherever we please.
inappropriate.blogspot.com /2001_12_16_inappropriate_archive.html   (4322 words)

  
 Blind Imperial Arrogance - Vile Stereotyping of Arabs by the U.S. Ensures Years of Turmoil
As to whether the Abbas arrangement can work, that is put off to another day.
This is shortsightedness indeed — the blind arrogance of the imperial gaze.
The same pattern is repeated in the official U.S. view of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the other Arab states.
www.commondreams.org /views03/0720-05.htm   (1001 words)

  
 José Mourinho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mourinho finally moved to Chelsea in June 2004.
During his initial press conference on joining Chelsea Mourinho claimed to be "a special one", a prime example of his unreserved self-belief, bordering on arrogance.
He became one of the best paid managers in the world, with the salary for signing with Chelsea was reported to be in the €300,000 range and was later raised to an undisclosed amount.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arrogance   (1740 words)

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