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

Thinking Artist Mediums Betray Hubris

Author:Steve Albini

“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”

Stories Draws Exciting Missions Excitement Realism Hubris Exciting Life

Author:Oliver North

“The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.”

Source: Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

“The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept.”

World Stills Country Might Accepting Solutions Congress Finance Administration Dependent Superpower Hubris Lenders Bailouts

Book:How the Economy was Lost: The War of the Worlds

Source: How the Economy was Lost: The War of the Worlds

“Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together. This time, it's not stock market money but private equity, M&A, VCs and to some degree the reckless abandonment of logic by some advertisers who are perpetuating what is sure to end badly when the economy turns. Hubris is back my friends.”

Needs Ends Together Faces Turns Economy Degrees My Friends Logic Drunk Equity Abandonment Reckless Hubris Clinic Advertisers Perpetuating Private Equity

Author:Steve Rubel

“The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.”

Kind Worst Ignorance Arrogance Conceited Hubris

Author:Jim Rohn

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

Dangerous Species Satisfied Economist Equations Hubris Potency

Book:Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos

Source: Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos

“For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.”

Ifs Should Self Would Be Able Universe Speak Talking Cases Sea Truth Is Degrees Highest Models Cosmos Exception Absurdity Evident Monkeys Propose Assertion Hubris

Author:Terence McKenna

“The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this: American military power, especially when buttressed by Britain's, is virtually unchallengeable today. Take us on? Don't try! And that's not hubris, it's just plain fact.”

Ifs Trying Facts Today Technology Progress Military Lessons Iraq Campaigns Britain Continuing Tactics Hubris Military Power American Military

Author:Wesley Clark

“Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners... If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything... Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another.”

Ifs Thinking Way Hard Helping Use Young Purpose One Thing Goes On Let Me Corners Stores Wander Colleagues Hardware Clerks Hubris Hard Way Backpacking Hassle

Author:Neal Stephenson

“If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.”

Ifs Giving Soul Body Bigs Law Political Sin Results Office Bounds Ships Upset Meals Proportion Sickness Sail Hubris Outburst Unrighteousness

Author:Plato

“It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.”

Thinking Artist Too Much Share Diversity Majors Percent Universal Impact Strikes Labels Reasonable Countenance Hubris Cultural Diversity Regulators Too Much Power

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.