I found Ocean to be at his most relaxed and natural when he was being humble, talking about cars and joking around about his piano skills.
In an interview in his corner office overlooking Central Park, Mr. Britt was humble, talking much more about his company's achievements — it had total revenue of $21 billion last year; the year Mr. Britt took over, it was $6 billion — than his own.
With shiny new 4G smartphones clamouring for attention, it's easy to forget about the humble talk-plus-text mobile phone.
This is a more humble United States talking, a country in recession that owes billions of dollars to the world, principally to Japan and China.
All through Mr Boyle kept in mind the image of Edvard Munch's "The Scream".He lectured on his craft at the American Film Institute almost to the end of his life, often in humble, rambling talks with old friends, and was revered for creating some of the most powerful images in cinema.
At a press and buyers event in Paris in January, West, in what was a rather humble turn, talked through the process behind the collection, quipping that the influential Central Saint Martins professor Louise Wilson (who died in May) refused him a place at the school.
Identify your strengths, but be humble when talking about your accomplishments.
Be humble (unless talking about how we will all die with a lack of true purpose and how morals are decided by individuals).
By 2014, Katzenberg was trying to unload the company but was humbled when talks collapsed with two potential suitors: toy maker Hasbro and Japanese telecom firm SoftBank.
We'd wished we had someone down the road that we could go to when we didn't know what to do," says Humble when we talk later.
In terms of targets for his first year, Mourinho reiterated his comments at his first press conference when he said: "I'm not humble when I talk about targets, I'm quite aggressive on that.
