Sentences with phrase «hubris when»

Sure, German startup Bragi showed a bit of hubris when it named its second - generation fully wireless earbuds «The Headphone,» but as far as we're concerned, that's one of the few points that detracts from these excellent buds.

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.

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).

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

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.

Not exact matches

«Sometimes when we're working with Silicon Valley startups — particularly when they're well funded — the hubris and arrogance is difficult to get through,» he says.

One of the things that you realize is that the hubris during years of success can be fatally damaging when the business just goes even slightly sideways.

When a civilization is destroyed by hubris, those who are left behind are forced to rebuild society, this time learning from our past mistakes.

«When we first started to roll out our global terrestrial TV programme, people thought I was nuts, «going backwards», and a victim of my own hubris.

Rubin strolled out the door of Citigroup in early 2009 $ 120 million richer than when he originally rolled his shopping cart into the well - stocked aisles of hubris at Citigroup almost a decade earlier.

Unveiling the strategy, Mr Smith said: «When we first started to roll out our global terrestrial TV programme, people thought I was nuts, «going backwards», and a victim of my own hubris.

It is sad that some people have so much hubris as to believe they know the truth when others who believe equally in another truth are wrong.

When virtually every expert in the field agrees that the Theory is a fact, arguing that because the details aren't all agreed on the theory is false is silly and requires enormous hubris.

But it's never better than when it's questioning its hero's hubris, and works in a theme about the power of humility that would make Brene Brown stand up and cheer.

So, when a man's opinion differs from your own, it's hubris, but when a man's opinion supports your own, it's a logical opinion?

Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power.»

It is sad to see someone who has been an amazing servant to the team, not know when to call it quits and hurt his standing and legacy out of sheer, stubbornness and hubris.

When things are going well, am I guilty of hubris?

With what just happened to Michigan State, we saw first hand what happens when you shake off hubris, stop being complacent, and actually evaluate the problems to the gameplan.

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.

And add to this that, when Cameron goes on the attack, it helps to reinforce the negative qualities that are now increasingly being associated with him by the media, and in the public consciousness - coldness, arrogance, tendency to hubris.

conclusion: Hubris was recognized by the ancient Greeks as an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power.

When Cahill made his willingness to move sales - tax legislation through the state legislature, a transfer of almost $ 5 million a year, conditional on county safety - net takeover and elections expenses from the towns, his critics accused him of hubris, just short of abuse of office.

When Cahill made his willingness to move sales tax legislation through the state legislature, a transfer of almost $ 5 million a year, conditional on county Safety Net takeover and elections expenses from the towns, his critics accused him of hubris, just short of abuse of office.

And in an age when many doctors dismiss unexplained conditions as «all in the head,» Marshall's story serves as both an inspiration and an antidote to hubris in the face of the unknown.

It is an effectively searing attack on the war starting with the fallacies of rabid anti-communism which was a disguise for imperalistic hubris in aiding the French, thus missing the opportunity to aid Ho Chi Minh after World War II when it had the chance.

Hollywood should realize that these big tiff things aren't nearly as impressive as they once were, particularly in the aftermath of three years of Iron Age combat apotheosized in the great «Lord of the Rings» pictures; when you've seen Orcs and hobbits fighting for the future of the world, it's a little hard to get excited about Persians and Greeks fighting over someone's imperial hubris 2,300 years ago.

It's an insider's look at greed, hubris and the willingness of an elite few to flush the entire economy down the drain, so long as they are the ones who get to decide when.

When he's onscreen, its clear that the film is a reinvention of the Frankenstein story, a portrait of man's hubris and desire to play god.

Lover for a Day seems at times almost a parody of Garrel's work, a throwback to a time when a filmmaker's artistry or hubris often excused, for many viewers, melodramatic characterizations of women, who in this kind of thing all too often threaten suicide or erratically burst into tears.

I've already called a Hubris Alert on this one; I'm sorry, Mr. Chancellor, but when just 21 percent of your eighth - grade students are proficient in reading, I think a little more humility is needed.

In a novel whose title invokes the grand sweep of an epic, there shouldn't be any surprise when the domestic tale leaps into mythic territory: bouts of hubris, betrayal and thwarted power that spring from the pages of classical tragedies.

The claim that you know more about Jewish faith when you have not grown up in it is the height of condescending hubris.

BlackBerry's hubris was easier to excuse back when it wasn't licensing its brand name to other hardware manufacturers.

Bungie's story rivals gaming's most volatile, its marriage to Halo growing steadily uneasy under fatigue, hubris and the weight of blockbuster expectation when it wasn't at risk of being outright consumed from within.

When the Dark Elves» hubris finally reached its peak as they attempted to assume control over the zombies, their magic fused with Ciglio's to unintentionally create the titular Zombasite.

Megan Luke: I think when we look at these paintings, we have to remind ourselves, and in fact it's impossible not to see, the audaciousness and hubris of a young man.

The piece was damaged when it was in England, and the press said it was punishment for my «hubris.»»

Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?

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.

If they had used that kind of hubris in the days when they were doing the work that earned their reputations, they would never have made it to the top in their own fields.

Do we suffer hubris in imagining we can determine the future of the climate system when we can't seem to do the same thing with a much better understood and controllable system, designed and built by Man?

I still think the hubris that allows people to think that better batteries or hydroponics will deliver us from CC is the same hubris concerned people show when they measure their words.

By the way, this story is an awesome illustration of the point I frequently make — that is, the hubris we have of declaring some weather pattern to be «abnormal» when in fact we only have been observing climate in any depth for a few decades.

When you say «satisfaction and acceptance of what they have accomplished even in a field that has no public attention, knowing that it will matter» it is the very definition of hubris.

When the good guys win, it is often at the expense of one's hubris, sanity and, once in a great while, one's very soul.