Deficiency Quotes - Page 6

• To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

  E. V. Lucas

  Appreciation, Culture, Lows

  Lucas, E. V. (2014). “Fireside and Sunshine”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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• 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 deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.

  Ted Dekker

  Heart, Joy, Secret

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• 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 perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stories, Jordan, West

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.119, Fawcett

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• 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 and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, World, Faults

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• There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings on the part of God. Sin is dividedness, a state of deficiency, incompleteness, dissociation, enslavement, hatred, but it is not disobedience and not formal violation of the will of God.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Hatred, Sin, Crime

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• It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Medicine, Long

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.

  Alain de Botton

  Blessed, Humble, Men

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

  Horace Greeley

  Brain, Idle, Labor

  Horace Greeley (1872). “The Autobiography of Horace Greeley: Or, Recollections of a Busy Life: to which are Added Miscellaneous Essays and Papers”, p.148

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• The fundamental deficiency in HTML is that it reduces hypertext and the intertwinedness of human communication to a question of how it is rendered and what happens when you click on it. ... HTML is to the browser what PostScript is to the laser printer.

  Erik Naggum

  Communication, Html, Fundamentals

  "LISP and AI". Usenet article, groups.google.com. May 10, 2000.

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• 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 Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay.

  Muhammad Asad

  Teaching, Past, Islam

  Muhammad Asad (1993). “Islam at the Crossroads”, p.59, The Other Press

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• Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

  Bob Lewis

  Arrogance, Covering, Excuse

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• Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Education, Unity, Growth

  George Trumbull Ladd (1899). “Essays on the Higher Education”

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• The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Loneliness, Culture

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• Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.

  Midori Goto

  Honesty, Humility, Acceptance

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• Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.

  Brooke Westcott

  Ideas, Together, Too Much

  "The Gospel of the Resurrection: Thoughts on Its Relation to Reason and History".

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• Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.

  Waverley Root

  Country, Art, Food

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• People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

  Tom Rath

  People, Growth, Energy

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• Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Roles, Systems And Processes, Management

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• If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.

  Wahb ibn Munabbih

  Essence, Praise, Criticize

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• Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .

  J. Richard Clarke

  Work, Average, Worry

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• Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.

  Thomas Merton

  Play, Important, Weakness

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Office, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.145, Psychology Press

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• The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status.

  Carl Sagan

  Stupid, Believe, People

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• As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.

  Laozi

  Perfect, Taoism, Balance

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