Inability Quotes - Page 5

There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.

Wei Wu Wei

Mystery, Obvious, Perceive

"All Else Is Bondage: Non-Volitional Living". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1964.

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The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.

Ian Mcewan

Lying, Thinking, Ideas

Ian McEwan (2010). “Saturday”, p.17, Random House

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Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

Victoria Moran

Fun, Exercise, Weight Loss

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I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

Marva Collins

Teaching, Learning, Three

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Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

Blaise Pascal

Men, Trouble, Stills

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Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Real, Illiteracy

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I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

Henri Nouwen

Hypocrisy, Community, Results

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Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

Dennis Prager

People, Political, May

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The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

Chinua Achebe

Responsibility, Air, Land

Chinua Achebe (1984). “The Trouble with Nigeria”, p.1, Heinemann

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Hell is the inability to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Inability To Love, Hell

"It's time to make Shakespeare dangerous" by Simon Critchley, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

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I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by goddamned yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?

A.S. King

Life, Mean, Yearbook

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Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

Wangari Maathai

Self Confidence, Apathy, Today

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If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

John Ralston Saul

Technology, Class, Giving

John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress

Samuel Richardson

Moving, Decision, Progress

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The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people - mostly poor - in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies goes on.

David Horowitz

Educational, Media, Years

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The inability to hold cash and the pressure to be fully invested at all times meant that when the plug was pulled out of the tub, all boats dropped as the water rushed down the drain.

Seth Klarman

Water, Cash, Tubs

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You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.

Marcia Angell

Pain, Medicine, People

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The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

Ron Smothermon

Compassion, Forgiving, Lack Of Knowledge

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[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

Carl Sagan

Hypothesis, Prove

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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mirrors, Looks, Succeed

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1728, Random House

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MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

Douglas Coupland

School, Twenties, Essentials

Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.43, Hachette UK

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Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.

Seth Klarman

Long, Decision, Fundamentals

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...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

Stephen King

Needs, Openness

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In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt . . . spent billions of public money and created a huge public debt, but by so doing he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen, who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked, and although Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as 'the madman in the White House.' . . . [It's one more] striking example of inability to learn from experience.

Bertrand Russell

Country, Believe, White

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Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.

P. J. O'Rourke

Principles, Attention, May

P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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