Inadequacy Quotes
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Inadequacy Quotes & Sayings
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This is what games do: they promise us that we can repair a personal inadequacy - an inadequacy that they produce in us in the first place.
— Jesper Juul
Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.
— Jaggi Vasudev
I yawned, which is my cover for everything.
— Jennifer DuBois
Most learning problems exist not within the child but in the inadequacy of the system to find a way to teach them.
— Gay Su Pinnell
If practiced correctly, generosity can induce feelings of shame, inadequacy, and even envy, to name just a few.
— David Sedaris
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
— Sylvia Plath
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
— Mary Daly
The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.
— Theodor Adorno
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.
— Eknath Easwaran
Possibly from the outside this looks determinedly individual. Nobody realises what a mess of loneliness and inadequacy I am inside.
— Lindsay Anderson
The death of a world is judgment of its inadequacy. Death removes the unnecessary and the false.
— Greg Bear
It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we're touched by it.
— Kobo Abe
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
— Theodore Dreiser
I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
— Marilynne Robinson
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
— Edward Hopper
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
— Edna O'Brien
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.
— Karl Rahner
Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.
— J.K. Rowling
I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared
— Leila Aboulela
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
— Simon Le Bon
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.
— Alistair Begg
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
— Charles Stanley
The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.
— Swami Prabhavananda
Maybe everything depends . . . on where you're born, and the inadequacy of the destiny that follows from that.
— Antonio Di Benedetto
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
— Pope Leo XIII
Intimacy in all human relationships - especially with God - can occur only as vulnerability and inadequacy are owned.
— Belden C. Lane
He still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did everything she leaned on instantaneously decay?..
— Gustave Flaubert
Your coldness serves to emphasize my own inadequacy, and makes me feel that the best solution might be to expire.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Everybody judges from the point of view of his own inadequacy.
— Stanley Middleton
For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame ...
— Susan Meiselas
I too was pinched off from a piece of clay,
I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked
by things too wonderful for me — Bryana Johnson
I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked
by things too wonderful for me — Bryana Johnson
Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place.
— Lish McBride
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
— Ken Thompson
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
— Hugh Prather
Why should I change to suit other people's inadequacy?
— John Wiltshire
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.
— Donald Woods Winnicott
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
— Henry David Thoreau
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
— Patricia A. McKillip
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.
— Lorrie Moore
Maybe you go through life with ever-present feelings of inadequacy; you worry what other people would think if they knew the real you.
— Aubrey Gayel Sampson
Sorry is a callous inadequacy.
— Sabaa Tahir
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
— Jodi Picoult
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
— James Thurber
when men feel that rush of inadequacy and smallness, they normally respond with anger and/or by completely turning off.
— Brene Brown
Evil is a confession of inadequacy
— Stefan Molyneux
Lloyd-Jones once said that he had never written on prayer because of a sense of personal inadequacy in this area.28
— Timothy Keller
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
— Aldous Huxley
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
— Indira Gandhi