Self-Importance Quotes

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.