Poorly Quotes
241 quotes by 218 authors
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When we have no goal, or when our vision of the goal is obscured, we may lose our sense of purpose. Even when we've prepared…
— John Templeton
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Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they…
— Isaac Asimov
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The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must…
— Clara Zetkin
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Personally, people know themselves very poorly.
— Ernst Mach
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I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty…
— Alexei Navalny
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Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all…
— Frederick Lenz
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IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.
— Lawrence Wright
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I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in…
— Norman Lamm
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a…
— William Manchester
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Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.
— Bear Bryant
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You'll hear people say now, 'Oh, I don't want to see something in 3-D. That's wrong, because what they've seen is 3-D done poorly.
— Michael Bay
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When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.
— Dierks Bentley
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There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It…
— Kirk Gibson
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I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when…
— Florence Harding
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There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.
— George Grosz
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With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives.…
— Bob Hayes
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But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I…
— Robert Sternberg
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