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Letter "I" » inadequacies
«Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Mistakes
| Keywords:
And logic, inadequacies, inadequacy, perception
«Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.»
Author: William Goldman
| Keywords:
demon, diamond, earthbound, haunting, hopeless, impossibility, inadequacies, inadequacy, left brain, of your own, on paper, physically, right brain, The Haunting
«Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
discrimination, emancipation, inadequacies, inadequacy, liberalism, prejudice
«Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
academic, academic freedom, aspect, cerebral, cherished, cover for, inadequacies, inadequacy, laziness, literary, literary criticism, specialization, terminal, terminals, The Terminal
«Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
dependence, diversion, diversions, emptiness, helplessness, inadequacies, inadequacy, intolerable, loneliness, nullity, occupation, passions
«Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
corrupts, impotence, inadequacies, inadequacy, resentment, wickedness
«The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
inadequacies, inadequacy, residual, volatile
«We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
inadequacies, inadequacy, on the side, opposed, religions, sermons, sublimity, wretched
«Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
apology, blot, blunders, connected, damning, emphasis, exacted, expiation, formal, humiliations, inadequacies, inadequacy, incidental, incidental to, memorials, poisonous, pound, soaked, stamps, strew, subtlest, vocation
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