Inadequacy Quotes

114 Inadequacy quotes by 104 unique authors

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do… — Ayelet Waldman
Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we… — James A. Owen
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip
As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways… — Richard Kadrey
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite… — William Goldman
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was… — Tanith Lee
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the… — Carl Jung
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage. — James Thurber
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all… — Thomas Sowell
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength… — Thomas Hardy
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly… — John Wyndham
I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. — Marilynne Robinson
The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the… — Anais Nin
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of… — Francine Prose
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling,… — Susan Sontag
My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men so perfect because… — Gena Showalter
We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate… — Dallin H. Oaks
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless. — Lorrie Moore
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while… — Eric Hoffer
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by… — Doris Lessing
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together. — BrenÃ© Brown
You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this… — Will Self
I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do… — David Sedaris
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. — Julian Barnes

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