“I know my Leader; that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“To be rich and talented at the same time is rare but possible, but the most talented; the genius, is the one… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a… — Anthony S. Fauci Copy Share Image
It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've… — Daniel Baldwin Copy Share Image
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It is cruel and insensitive to interpret an affair as a symptom of sickness in the relationship, as it leaves the 'cheated-on'… — Dossie Easton Copy Share Image
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,… — William James Copy Share Image
As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Try and have neutral compassion toward the perpetrator. Step outside the sting of the incident and realize that this person is trying… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom… — Libby Copeland Copy Share Image
How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
