Jonathan Evison

After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and do publicity for free just because I like a book. Some people think of it as hubris or careerism, but I love to champion books. You can't use your whole sphere of influence just to help yourself.

American Writer

Parker Harris

I still believe heavily that we have to be careful about having this ego and hubris as a successful corporation, that we should do it all. Because then I think we start to fail our customers and we're too focused on taking over the world.

Brad Pitt

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.

Actor

Adam Conover

In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.

American Comedian

Alexandra C. Pelosi

There's a certain attitude that you'll experience in San Francisco. You could call it hubris.

American Journalist

Michael Ignatieff

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

Canadian Politician

Scott Pruitt

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

American Politician

David Gergen

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

American Public Servant

P. J. O'Rourke

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Kevin Spacey

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

American Actor

Hubris suggests negativity and is used to criticize a person's character.

Negative Connotation

Use hubris when implying one's downfall is a result of their excessive pride.

Causal Relationship

Hubris usually refers to an individual's trait rather than a group's.

Often Personal

In literary context, hubris is linked to characters challenging divine authority.

Defiance of Gods

Hubris in Greek tragedy is used to teach moral lessons about human limits.

Literary Device

In stories, hubris typically leads to tragic ends, showing the cost of arrogance.

Tragic Consequences

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 is that, as civilizations become technologically advanced enough to consider living amongst the stars, they lose sight of how important it is to safeguard the home worlds that fostered that advancement to begin with. It is hubris to believe that interplanetary colonization alone will save us from ourselves,

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 If you couldn't tell -- yes, they're my favorite group. As life evolves, it also goes extinct. Most species just last for a few million years. So you see, most life on earth that we see around us today are about the same age as our species. So it's hubris, it's self-centered to think,

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 And many of the problems faced by humans in the poems are caused by their hubris, or excessive pride in believing themselves superior to the gods. The desire to please the gods was so great that the Ancient Greeks traditionally welcomed all strangers into their homes with generosity

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 where this is going to be the big change. My friends who are dystopians are already predicting that this is the official beginning of the police state and the disastrous new world order. I think there's a lot of hubris in trying to imagine what that new world could be.

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 And that's terraforming the making it more like Earth, reengineering an entire planet. That sounds like a lot of hubris, but the truth is that the technology to do everything I'm about to tell you already exists. First we've got to warm it up.

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 This is a popular explanation, and there's lots of truth to it, because taking big risks, as we all know, pays a lot of money. Another explanation that you often hear for recklessness is hubris. And greed and hubris are intimately intertwined

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 But I actually do. You see, in the hubris of my youth, I thought I had her all figured out. She ate too much. She got unlucky. She got diabetes. Case closed. Ironically, at that time in my life,

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 Meritocracy is corrosive of the common good. It leads to hubris among the winners and humiliation among those who lose out. It encourages the successful to inhale too deeply of their success,

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 in the service of his ego, Icarus was also carried away by his own hubris. In the end, both men paid for their departure from the path of moderation dearly, Icarus with his life

Hubris

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Causal Relationship

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