Inability Quotes - Page 8

• I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Impact, Doubt, Answers

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jun 17, 2016

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• With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Pain, Real

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important.

  Emo Philips

  Important

  Source: www.wweek.com

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• Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

  William Law

  Christian, Heart, Ignorance

  William Law (2011). “A Serious Call to A Devout”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

  Bobby Scott

  Education, Opportunity, College

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• Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Umpires, Two

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• Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.

  Scott Adams

  Vocabulary, Brain, Limits

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

  Sam Keen

  Good Night, Hands, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

  James Sinegal

  Loyalty, Successful, Organization

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• When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities. When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They're less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.

  Steve Goodier

  Giving Up, Difficult Situations, People

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• Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

  Mike Murdock

  Self, Immaturity, Delay

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• This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

  Larry Kramer

  Believe

  Larry Kramer (2015). “The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart: A Novel”, p.341, Macmillan

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• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  James Altucher

  Love You, Sacrifice, Ideas

  "Wall Street’s ‘Eat What You Kill’ Motto Is the Only Way to Live" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Boys, Self

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• I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Hands, Law, People

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• Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

  A. E. Housman

  Art, Thinking, Poetry

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.169, Delphi Classics

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• I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singing about my own inabilities to be as bright as that person.

  Alexis Taylor

  Song, Writing, Love Life

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

  Reza Aslan

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

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• In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

  David Platt

  Dream, Delight, Direct

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• We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.

  Alan Keyes

  Law, Taught Us, America

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

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• A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Atheist, Philosophy, Atheism

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• The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Lying, Responsibility, Roots

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.

  Alain de Botton

  Memories, Lying, Leaving

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Outliers, Courses

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.763, Random House

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