What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate.… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I was afraid that I would find out that I didn't work hard, that I wasn't a very good mother. I was… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by… — Larry Diamond Copy Share Image
Always praise your kid even if he/she is unresponsive to learning. By insulting them and putting them down, you will only push… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas… — William James Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate.… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent… — Charlie Munger 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
Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow. — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit. — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate. — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can. — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for… — John Major Copy Share Image