Inability Quotes - Page 16

• Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Inspiring, Beauty, Perspective

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• Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

  James A. Baldwin

  Emotion, Dishonesty, Mark

  "Everybody’s Protest Novel". Essay by James A. Baldwin (1949), as quoted in "Uneasy Rider" by Alexandra Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

  John C. Maxwell

  Decision, Failing, Reason

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• There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

  Simone Weil

  Light, Faults

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• Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

  Simon Schama

  Forever, Shadow, Gone

  "Dead Certainties". Book by Simon Schama, p. 320, 1991.

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• One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Helping, Life Is, Defects

  Twitter post from Apr 23, 2014

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• Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

  Carl Rogers

  Men, Effective Listening, Empathy

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• Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mean, Feminism, World

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• It is always our inabilities that vex us.

  Joseph Joubert

  Vex, Ability

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

  Joe Wright

  Writing, Thinking, Cinema

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• Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Long, Creative, Burden

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Selfish

  "How we wrecked the ocean". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2010.

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• Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

  Alexander Downer

  Growing Up, Father, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Blessing, Opportunity, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

  Germaine Greer

  Believe, Long, Missing

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.16, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Mistake

  Twitter post from May 31, 2014

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• My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

  Kenny Rogers

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• Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

  Sun Yat-sen

  War, Class, Progress

  Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (1928). “San Min Chu I”

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• It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!"

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Running

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• Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Self, People

  Wayne W. Dyer (1977). “Your erroneous zones”

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• Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to share our story with a significant other. For the spiritual elite, the receiving of our own story - and the knowing that it is an integral part of the larger story of All-That-Is - is enough. But for most human beings, loneliness is transcended through contact with another person.

  Marc Gafni

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Moving

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• I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Depression, Spiritual, Inability To Love

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• The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.

  Jack McDevitt

  Falling In Love, Real, Believe

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• Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Disease

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Lying, Men

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