Sentences with phrase «hubris comes»

And from this hubris comes a fatal decision not to self - publish.

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-- William Cohan, author of HOUSE OF CARDS: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street and MONEY AND POWER: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

True humility is more powerful than any hubris, and it comes only from the heart, where love resides.

What is going on, I suggest, is an untoward national hubris married to the defense of an outdated model of the Church's role in world affairs: A model that worked reasonably well at the 1814 - 15 Congress of Vienna but that came close to causing disaster in the 1970s.

it wasn't until i realized the hubris of such a position that i was able to come to understand where i belonged.

War, on the other hand, was very much in, and while the majority of the First World War was a muddy, depressing exercise in imperial hubris and mechanised slaughter, dogfights came out the other side with their reputation enhanced.

Sometimes doing something proactively appears defensible and logical when, at its root, lies a hubris that we may soon come to regret.

It's sad that some American obstetricians disdain homebirth, an attitude that comes partially from ignorance and inexperience, partially from professional hubris, and partially from being in the unfortunate position of only seeing homebirth moms when something goes wrong.

Hubris might turn Momentum's numerical strength into a weakness, pride coming before a fall.

The motif of the Leviathan - come - to - crush all was also all too apparent, in the fate of the hubris - stricken Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and its eventual destruction.

Let Nigerians not forget that the hubris that hallmarked the Goodluck Jonathan administration has the capacity to hunt us for decades to come.

There was however a moment of hubris which Nick may well come to regret.

This is where B comes in — the hubris and shortsightedness.

«But she didn't come to the process with any hubris, so any moment where she hadn't done something before or hadn't experienced something before she was always asking the right questions.

Any kind of truncation is just empty hubris or, giving Mendes the benefit of the doubt, pandering to those impatient masses who weren't gonna show up anyway (for starters, if the draw is the reunion of Kate & Leo, then I can't think of anything more repellent to a Titanic fan than the thought of their idealized couple quarrelling for two hours), so why not give the faithful what they came for?

The Terror comes from a long tradition of gothic horror stories of foolhardy men who dare to tamper with the natural order; whose hubris gets the better of them, and sends them on the path to destruction.

I was going to settle in with a few broad musings, but I'll hold that for a moment in light of ED's decision, teased Friday but embargoed until this morning, to test new heights of hubris when it comes to ESEA.

Now coming from the leader of a union that has made the one - size - fits - every - teacher - and - student collective bargaining agreement the Bible of every school district unfortunate enough to be organized with an industrial - style union, that is hubris of the highest order.

Or Google's hubris when it comes to dealing with authors.

The pressure is no surprise at all given that the company just announced that it wouldn't be releasing smartphones based on the new BlackBerry 10 operating system until late 2012, to say nothing of what might be called hubris when it comes to the overall management of the company (of which, the recent BBX trademark imbroglio and the pending BBM trademark lawsuit are just two recent examples).

Whereas the cutscenes introduce pivotal or defining moments of all four legends, it's within these tragic mementos we discover the motives behind how they came to be, be they the lamentations of Urbosa and Mipha or the growing hubris of Revali.

The recent economic past may be a harbinger of what's to come (slow decline of economic hubris and transition to more moderate lifestyles) and in ways it may be seen in some of the GNY work.

Following a link on the Nick Breeze link, this person (Michael Mann who is obviously proud of the fact the Huffington Post accepts his articles) apparently does not know his «hubris» from his «humility» when it comes to taking sides in the AGW analysis game.

It's about an unwillingness to recognize that the familiar, resource abundant world, dominated by white men fueled by cheap energy and free - market uber alles hubris is quickly coming crashing down.

And like many new devotee to anything, I suffered from a certain degree of hubris when it came to my appearance and talent for dressing.

Finally, and I hope this doesn't come across as egotistical or full of hubris, but with the perspectives, knowledges and advice given within this thread, I have closed two deals (one flip and one wholesale) and have another two under contract since January 2014.