Greg Rucka Quotes

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.

I think about the people that I've seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.

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.

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

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

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

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

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

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

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

Thinking you're a genius is death.

Nothing fails like success.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

You never want to inhale your press clippings.

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!