Deficiency Quotes

159 Deficiency quotes by 135 unique authors

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. — George C. Marshall
Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to… — Sandra Day O'Connor
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of… — George Saunders
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more… — Haile Selassie
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their… — Emile M. Cioran
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. — Helen Keller
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving… — Douglas Adams
What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we… — Margaret Atwood
No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own… — Sydney J. Harris
Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none. — Margaret Weis
Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are… — Samuel Johnson
Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a… — William S. Burroughs
Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with… — Ann Voskamp
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without… — Ted Dekker
These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. — Margaret Atwood
We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the… — Muhammad Asad
Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in… — Susan Abulhawa
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have… — Unknown Author
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. — Aristotle
In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing… — Douglas Fairbanks
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just… — J. G. Ballard
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is… — Edward Frederic Benson

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