Inadequate Quotes - Page 14

• When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

  Alicia Keys

  Men, Games, Firsts

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• I'm sure there are people who just assume we can't have hungry people in America because so many people are obese, but once you start to understand that a major cause of obesity is inadequate nutrition, it really changes that conversation.

  Lori Silverbush

  America, People, Causes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Badass, Preparation, Luck

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Flower, People, Perfect

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.54, PublicAffairs

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• Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.

  Lan Samantha Chang

  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Unrequited

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• Patch? Whatever happens, I love you." I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at the same time, so simple and accurate, nothing else would do.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Love You, Simple, Three

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• If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Law, Causes

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• It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.

  Claire Messud

  Lying, Fall, People

  FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Aug 10, 2016

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• You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

  Chris Corrigan

  Business, Mistake, Needs

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• What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on everybody agreeing to ignore, most of the time, the fact that all of us are, most of the time, inadequate, incompetent, pitiful, and, in fact, naked to our enemies. None of us really has very much in the way of spiritual, moral clothing. We dress ourselves in rags. And we agree to say nothing about it. To a very large extent, it is human charity that clothes us.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Spiritual, Children, Growing Up

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• One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Army

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Years, Mind, Use

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I testify you are individually loved of God, you are central to the meaning of His work, and you are cherished and prayed for by the presiding officers of His Church. The personal value, the sacred splendor of every one of you, is the very reason there is a plan for salvation and exaltation.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Country, Church, Exaltation

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• It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Humility, Law, Profound

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin

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• An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Believe, Reading, Age

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.12, Profile Books

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• Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Childhood, Victory

  "Imaginary Homelands". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1991.

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• When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

  Warren Farrell

  Stress, Men, Keys

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

  Stanley Kunitz

  People, Frailty, Knows

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• Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the next shock. We had to realize that the people that did this were brilliant. It showed that the ego we could hold up until September 10 was inadequate.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, America, People

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• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  A. S. Byatt

  Stupid, Profound, Trying

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 31, 2011

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• Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.

  George Saunders

  People, Lucky, Rich

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December: Stories”, p.81, Random House

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• Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.

  Jess C Scott

  Men, Female, Faking It

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