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Hubris Quotes

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

Success Learn You Never Hubris Fail

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

Hubris Own Victims Our Times

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Great Hubris Resources Renewable

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

House White Hubris Odds Despair

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

Good Story Pride Feel Fall Hubris

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Laziness Three Hubris Chief Virtues

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Douglas Preston

Science Hubris Incompatible

The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.

Love Optimism Tragedy Hubris Where

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

You Artist Will Hubris Itself

Theranos was a combination of fraud with hubris mixed with incompetence.

Fraud Hubris Incompetence Combination

Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wants or she wants. Humans need to be shrunk again to their actual size.

Christoph Waltz

Thinking Earth She Need Hubris Size

I do think hubris played a role here as well, the belief that the Lusitania was too big and too fast to ever be caught by any submarine, and that, in any case, no U-boat commander would think to attack the ship because to do so would violate the long-held rules governing naval warfare against merchant shipping.

Think Ship Rules Fast Belief Hubris

ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.

Management Investment Hubris Joke Up

Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.

Famous Hubris Air Carry Sign Course

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

Chris Van Allsburg

Kind Boy Hubris Midwest Stories

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

Day Dangerous Hubris Always Modern

I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.

Michael Ignatieff

Politics Think Hubris Going Lot Had

The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris.

Washington More Need Hubris Last

Isaac Cline was a creature of his times. He embodied the hubris of his times and, in many ways, was a victim of the storm, not just in material ways - loss of a family member and damage to the town - but also in metaphoric terms.

Family Storm Loss Hubris Victim He

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.

Think Artist Hubris Him Recognize

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

Research Ego Hubris Delusion Realism

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

Seeing Now Hubris Seen Scandals

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

Humility Kings Drama Hubris Heroes

I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.

Kristan Higgins

Death Me Think Better Career Hubris

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