James Haskell Quotes

Nothing fails like success.

How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation?

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.

Nothing recedes like success.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

I never wanted to be on a pedestal.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

I've seen guys who had the craziest amount of talent growing up and let that hype and whatnot and the money go to their head.

The minute you think, 'I have done it' or 'I know what is happening,' you will start to go down.

The more successful you become, the more known you become, everything you say is minutely scrutinised a lot.

In fashion, the minute you say, 'I am successful,' is the minute you are going down.

With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.