Shortcomings Quotes - Page 11

• cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Long, Care, Cracked

  Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (1970). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

  LZ Granderson

  Children, Parent, Feelings

  "Kid, you are not special" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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• There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Strong, Curiosity, Actors

  Anna Cora Mowatt, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1854). “Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage”, p.220

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• The greatest sin is carelessness.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Sin, Carelessness

  "Playboy Interview: Linda Ronstadt". Interview with Jean Vallely, www.ronstadt-linda.com. April, 1980.

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• I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.

  Djuna Barnes

  Bridges, Gaps, Potatoes

  Djuna Barnes (1996). “Collected Stories”, Sun and Moon Press

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• Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Faults, Adore, Creatures

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• Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Fashion, Children, Responsibility

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• We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Odor, Defects, Approach

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• I had my shortcomings - crazy hair, braces, bad skin and all that stuff. I went through it all.

  David Boreanaz

  Crazy, Hair, Skins

  "David Boreanaz Reveals His Hero". The PARADE Interview, parade.com. September 3, 2008.

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• In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!

  Steven Pinker

  School, College, Intuition

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• Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

  Joel Garreau

  Effort, Evolution, Constant

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.161, Broadway Books

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• More thinking is required, and we should all exercise our God-given right to think and be unafraid to express our opinions, with proper respect for those to whom we talk and proper acknowledgment of our own shortcomings. We must preserve freedom of the mind in the church and resist all efforts to suppress it. The church is not so much concerned with whether the thoughts of its members are orthodox or heterodox as it is that they shall have thoughts.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Exercise, Thinking, Lds

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• Great talent admits shortcomings.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Talent, Great Talent

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• I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.

  Sam Walton

  Motivational, Passion, Thinking

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.314, Bantam

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• The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.

  Abraham Maslow

  Successful, Men, Psychology

  "Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow".

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• Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred. Criticism is often motivated by a desire to rationalize one's own shortcomings and to justify termination of sacred marriage covenants.

  Richard G. Scott

  Giving, Hatred, Feelings

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• Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.

  A. S. Byatt

  History, Arise, Novel

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• Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

  David Niven

  Men, Thinking, Laughing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Don’t let any emotional thought concerning success or failure, fame or gain, overtake you, and don’t dwell upon them. Give up your personal shortcomings, such as foolish talk, distracting activities, and absentmindedness. Train in being totally gentle in all physical, verbal, or mental activities. Don’t ponder the flaws of others; think instead of their good sides.

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  Giving Up, Thinking, Emotional

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• Some have immersed themselves in internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcomings of early Church leaders. Then they draw incorrect conclusions that can affect testimony. Any who have made these choices can repent and be spiritually renewed.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Leader, Choices, Church

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• My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Greatest Victory, Long, Able

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• Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Progress, Complaining

  "Voyage of Purpose : Spiritual Wisdom from Near-Death Back to Life" by David Bennett and Cindy Griffith-Bennett, (p. 6), 2011.

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• My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.

  Isaac Jogues

  Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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• Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

  Colin Powell

  Uplifting, Men, Racism

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