Inadequacy Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

  Charles Babbage

  Failure, Errors, Mathematical Logic

  Attributed to Charles Babbage in William Kenneth Richmond "The Education Industry", 1969.

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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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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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Destiny, Life And Death

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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