Deficiency Quotes - Page 9

• Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Names, Evil

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• If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

  Aristotle

  Art, Mean, Intellectual

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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• Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

  Aristotle

  Quality, Excess, Moral

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.35, Wordsworth Editions

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• if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Jobs, Organization, Support

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• A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

  Slash

  Character, Years, Vices

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• The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Independent, Technology, Promise

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

  Robert H. Frank

  Economic Models, Roles, Evaluation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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 your deficiencies.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Thinking, Style

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• As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wall, Ideas, Insecurity

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• In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Two, Mistress

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.244, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

  George C. Marshall

  Following Instructions, Serious, Given

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• Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Army, Men

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• 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 losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Loss, Men, Mad

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• We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Evil, Weakness, Wickedness

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• We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

  Brené Brown

  Fun, People, Judging

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• Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Bravery, Excess

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.218, Hackett Publishing

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• Take 15 minutes daily, thinking of pleasant scenarios regarding your body, with the sole intent of enjoying your body and appreciating its strength and stamina and flexibility and beauty. When you visualize for the joy of visualizing rather than with the intention of correcting some deficiency, your thoughts are more pure and, therefore, more powerful. When you visualize to overcome something that is wrong, your thoughts are diluted with the "lackful" side of the equation. In time, your physical condition will acquiesce to your dominant thoughts.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Thinking, Appreciate

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• We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude

  George Washington

  War, Mean, Evil

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• A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.

  Frances Harper

  Insecure, Law, Government

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• Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency

  Linus Pauling

  Disease, Sickness, Minerals

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