Hubris Quotes

It's only hubris if I fail.

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

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

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

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.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

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

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

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.

MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.

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.