Feelings Of Inadequacy Quotes

• Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

  Robert Genn

  Power, Accomplishment, Feelings

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• When we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

  Christopher Reeve

  Attention, Limitless, Sidelines

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• 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 intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Truth, Intelligent

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

  Carl Jung

  Half, Judgment, Intellect

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

  Simon Le Bon

  Country, Feelings, Musical

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• We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Self

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• Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority. It is preferable to look directly to our Father for our sense of self-worth.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Father, Self Worth, Feelings

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• When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let's park our minds in God's truth.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Feelings, Mind, Parks

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 07, 2015

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• Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

  Marya Mannes

  Sarcastic, Business, Responsibility

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• 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 ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.

  Will Self

  Real, Writing, Successful

  "Will Self's rules for writers", www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

  Lorrie Moore

  Fear, Rain, Feelings

  Interview with Angela Pneuman, www.believermag.com. October, 2005.

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• There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.

  Alicia Keys

  Light, Not Good Enough, Feelings

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• Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Eye, Feelings, Brain

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• Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Science, Feelings

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