David Milch Quotes

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

No reasonable man would think more highly of himself because he has office or power in this world; he is no more than a prisoner whom the chief gaoler has set over his fellow-prisoners, until the executioner's cart comes for him too.

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

I see people every day who think they're the be all and end all of the industry. I've seen so many people come and go, but the industry doesn't revolve around one person.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

If the study of history teaches anything, it teaches us the limitations of life.

Be careful of hubris about ideas—especially your own. Remember always, that there is one commonality between all the good ideas that were ever created and all the bad ideas: The people you created them thought that they were good ideas.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.