Zitat des Tages über Hybris / Hubris:
What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.
We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
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.
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.
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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.
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.
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.
We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
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.
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.
