A Quote by Neil Armstrong

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

Neil Armstrong

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Neil Armstrong
American - Astronaut
August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012

There is a long history of research showing that people are overconfident about their abilities. But it turns out that people in general are not overconfident about their abilities; people with a fixed mindset are overconfident.

Carol S. Dweck

What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.

Robbie Williams

The key is not being overconfident. You should not think that because I'm a top-ranked player, I will win this game. You have to be focused.

P. V. Sindhu

There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.

Kiele Sanchez

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

Bette Midler

Back during my VJ days, I was overconfident as I was on television and was earning money very early in life.

Rhea Chakraborty

I am not overconfident.

Romano Prodi

Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.

Joe Lonsdale

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.

Stephanie McMahon

I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours.