Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Never question your ability to overcome obstacles. Question your inability to overcome those obstacles.” — Lorenzo Victory Copy Share Image
What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change. — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
We’re not that strong anymore. (Hades) Oops, guess I screwed up. Inability to see the consequences of our thoughtless acts must run… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
[Wilson] has this strange inability to censor himself, and he'll say these things that are sometimes quite caustic or end up creating… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
We are pretty sure that we and our pets share the same reality, until one day we come home to find that… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image