He's stuck it out when lesser men would walk away. I don't care what you call that, hubris or whatever. I truthfully think just changing the captain on the ship wouldn't have made any difference. If anything, it may have slowed things down because at least that captain knows the mistakes he made.
Quotes about hubris (16 Quotes)
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.
Her particular brand of hubris, not withstanding her apology and contrition, well, you had to understand that everybody would be watching. There is great risk in putting her back in front of so many people.
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.
That's a hubris that, if he had paid attention to what happened to himself and other presidents, he wouldn't have made that mistake. It was a very predictable mistake.
There are plenty of Republicans who have voiced objections about the way the White House has handled relations, not just Democrats. There's a level of arrogance and hubris that members find mystifying. The president has utterly failed to conduct business adequately with members on the Hill. It's 'my way or the highway.'
Their hubris was amazing. But are supposedly nice people really all that different now The ability to misuse another person and then find reasons to excuse it is a universal human trait.
We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as Emerson insisted, the development of consciousness, consciousness, consciousness.
On her reputation for hubris I have sometimes, probably, forgotten -- and I know I have -- to pat the back of someone or said 'thank you' enough times or maybe even once sometimes, ... I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person....If I were a man no one would ever say that I was arrogant.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
I was at the courthouse to vote this morning. I parked in the far reaches of the parking lot I noticed a car sitting in the fire lane and blocking the disabled camp to go into the courthouse. As I got closer to the car the license plate on the car said County Judge. We must be vigilant to guard against the hubris of elected officials. This just reminded me why I am running in this race.
I don't own the personal hubris to assume that any book I'm writing is going to get published,
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.