Inability Quotes

375 quotes by 344 authors

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. — Wayne Dyer
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his… — Norman Borlaug
How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to… — Vernon Howard
If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire… — Stephen Covey
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their… — Simon Schama
Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. — Carl Rogers
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. — Gene Tierney
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates… — Stephen Jay Gould
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic… — Eric Hoffer
The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people… — Mother Teresa
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find… — John D. Barrow
Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a… — Wayne Dyer
When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your… — John R. Rice
One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with… — Dick Cheney
All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice. — Elliott Erwitt
This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels.… — Ludwig von Mises
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different… — Pope Benedict XVI
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. — Albert Allen Bartlett
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… — Alexander Hamilton

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