Not a movie quote, but it should be in a movie, on billboards, on commercials, in songs, and EVERYWHERE because some people need this. Arrogance only attracts more arrogant people, which makes the rest of life a constant competition of superiority. Sometimes I feel people trying to compete with me, and I just want to hand them a gold medal and tell them, “alright you’ve won. And since I’m not playing, you’ve won a competition with yourself.” That’s all I really feel it is, a one-man competition, where you are the referee, the audience, and the players on all sides, because no one cares. In the attempt to gear this away from just a full blown rant, I just want to admire the way the quote is put, in reference to the manner in which an person grins. The grin can either be a true, genuine smile, or an arrogant smirk, and that which makes the grin genuine is the presence of humility. The humbleness behind the smile is more powerful than the conceit behind the smirk could ever be. The world can’t be filled with important people, or else no one would be important. Also, there are plenty of people who are quite important, yet who maintain a relationship with their humility and with their grasp on reality, never adhering to arrogance. Then I am curious what the train or collection of thought is, or if there is one at all, that results in a person truly believing they are superior to another person. I want to listen in to that thought process because it truly fascinates me, what a person must have gone through in their life to have replaced a healthy sense of confidence, with a façade of arrogance. Yes, I do mean replaced, because I don’t really see how someone can be both confident and arrogant. I think a lot of the time arrogance stands in place of confidence because of the severe depletion of confidence, but then I wonder what makes people become arrogant rather than reserved or shy when their confidence goes missing. I wonder about these things, and what specifically goes on in a person’s mind that causes these types of behaviors. I suppose everyone has their own unique collection of experiences and predispositions that shape exactly who they are, but I just have to wonder how this arrogance comes about and why it’s so often a replacement to confidence. And how on earth, people prefer arrogance to confidence. So…smile, don’t smirk.