Sentences with phrase «think hubris»

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.

Regardless of Apple's true motive in all of this, I can't help but think their hubris hurt them in the way they handled the FBI request.

Not exact matches

We can rely too heavily on past returns to predict future performance, seek out information that confirms our beliefs while ignoring counter-arguments, and fall victim to group - think and our own hubris.

Seems everyone has an opinion about what it is that makes Silicon Valley generate so much value and so many crazy start - ups, but I think a lot of those easy explanations are full of hubris and miss the real magic of what is happening here.

I think there are many similarities to the dot - com era of hubris that's going on in the marketplace today.

«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.

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.

Hubris, meanwhile, is not a fair label to apply to any person who thinks differently and has the courage to assert or act on their convictions.

lately I've read and watched a fair amount of athiest literature and while I agree with the basic idea I would like to think the same things without the smug condescending hubris.

For the sake of everyone she helps, I'm glad she ignored his hubris and went on to help the dying in the manner that they need, not what someone else thinks they need.

The hubris in the thought is this, «critical thinking» excludes itself as an object of question.

@Ann Cardon, «The hubris in the thought is this, «critical thinking» excludes itself as an object of question.

oh, so like pretty much all religious people you have the audacity and hubris to speak disparagingly about what other people * think * their religion is supposed to be about, implying that, apparently, you and only you have all the real answers.

The trick is fooling the world into thinking there is some invisible evil spirit that made you do bad things so you can shift the blame for the greed, the selfishness and the hubris with which most religious zealots conduct themselves.

The opening chapter on Emerson, whose thought created «most of the context of these five books,» criticizes him for extolling the virtues of unrestrained individualism to the point of romanticizing a national character prone to hubris.

Every single one of them thinks they've found a profound lifestyle, system, or behavior that can change others lives for the better, and all of them are guilty of hubris, as they actually have no secret information at all.

Out of the billions of galaxies in the universe Out of the billions of systems and planets Out of the hundreds of gods humans have produced You have the hubris to think that your little god listens to your prayers And if you don't believe then that little loving god will burn you for eternity.

If he exists, and truly created you and everything else, do you really have the hubris to think you could comprehend him?

To think we are the end of that design is proof positive that the hubris of mankind knows no bounds.

I think a little hubris is warranted at this point.

I know you don't like to accept the fact that what you think is truth may not actually be truth, but that is the hubris and pride that keeps you from being able to open your eyes and admit you might be wrong.

Instead, the guys use eight special blends of chiles, torment, and vengeance to punish the hubris of anyone who thinks they can handle superhots on steroids.

The Barfield error made you think the Yankees were cursed and being punished for hubris and past success, and that they would never, ever win again.

No manager could turn him into TH14 and it was hubris on Wengers behalf to think he could be anything more after learning how 1 dimensional he is.

I thought he was ready, mostly based on his age, what other people's kids were doing at the time, and a vague bit of hubris that he seemed advanced in a few other areas (verbal, mostly) so clearrrrrrrrly he was going to train as soon as realistically possible.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

«The fact that he was trying to become the top state prosecutor in this borough I think shows the extreme arrogance and hubris that is involved in this case,» Lynch said.

«I think ultimately the speaker was brought down by hubris, by illegal action, by lapse of judgement, and whenever that happened, it at least happened.»

I think Ratigan's motivation for entering the race at this point is nothing more than hubris.

While the lack of perception may be partially due to hubris, I think most often it is the lack of looking for patterns in nature in places that are not normally accessible to our limited senses.

I think the very notion of an apocalypse is kind of invented out of human hubris — the idea that once we cease to be, that everything must cease to be.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

I think it's more hubris and professional ego.

Not to point any fingers but I think we can look around and see that there is a lot of this going on (although often out of ignorance rather than hubris.)

Fundamentally incapable of getting along with anyone, he is reminiscent of a Warner Brothers cartoon villain in his unchecked hubris (think of the Tasmanian Devil or Yosemite Sam).

Perhaps that's why he has the hubris to think he can harness the wind to send great machines in the air, an aspiration he has held since he was a boy.

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?

I think the major hubris in this working out of the plot is that you try to combine way too many elements, while leaving out the very best ones.

The short answer lies, I think, in the hubris typical of a freshly elected president, the passionate commitment of the liberal lions Kennedy and Miller to social justice (that is, closing the achievement gap), and the pride that John Boehner took in collaborating with these titans.

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.

Rather, I think the reluctance to contribute is due to hubris, impatience to focus on implementation, political naivete, and disdain for what they see as mean - spirited carping.

Rather, I think the reluctance to contribute [to a debate in support of Common Core] is due to hubris, impatience to focus on implementation, political naivete, and disdain for what they see as mean - spirited carping....

In one case that's getting linked around, I am pretty sure it is not RT's fault they only sold 10 books and paid $ 500 for a table to do so... I think it was just hubris, or maybe a poor calculation of return on investment.

Although there's a lot of hubris at Hachette if they think they can compete with Amazon.

It was hubris to think it would never need that level of adjustment.

The hubris was in thinking that I could decipher what balance sheet information there was better than other investors WITH THE SAME INFORMATION!

Just as hubris drove Icarus to fly too close to the sun, overconfidence can make even a sophisticated investor think he knows better than the market.

Wayne Thiebaud gets you to think about the folly and hubris of shaping the landscape to suit our needs.

With hubris and bravado, the Ferus artists together created a collective vision of what they thought art could and should become.

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.