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It's only hubris if I fail.
Hubris and science are incompatible.
Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.
We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.
MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.
The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris.
Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.
The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.
It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.
Theranos was a combination of fraud with hubris mixed with incompetence.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'
We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.
I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
There's a certain attitude that you'll experience in San Francisco. You could call it hubris.
We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.
I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.
In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.'
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.
Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.
What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
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.
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.
We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications.
The whole purpose of Russian propaganda is to show that the U.S. and U.S. politics is filled with hubris and hypocrisy and to show it is not better than anyone else.
Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.
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.
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.
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.
Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.
Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.
It is hubris that has gotten us into trouble in Washington. It is humility, principled leadership, and unwavering faith in the power of the states, the people, and our Constitution that will get us out.