Defects Quotes - Page 20

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

Curtis Jackson

Character, Thinking, Role Models

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Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Mahatma Gandhi

Eye, Moles, Opponents

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A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

Mahatma Gandhi

Weed, Lying, Inward

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This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of civilisation, and if there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, mark my words, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost faith in themselves.

Swami Vivekananda

Faith, Heart, People

Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.91, Vivekananda Kendra

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God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

Francois Fenelon

Knowledge, Perfect, People

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Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.

Narendra Modi

Zero, Powerful, Thinking

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Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.

John Climacus

Forgiveness, Running, Spiritual

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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

Edward Young

Ocean, Thoughtful, Silence

Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.82

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A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

John Adams

Passion, Errors, Prejudice

John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Lu Xun

Time, Faults, Conclusion

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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

John Webster

Men, Ruins, Belief

John Webster (2016). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.65, John Webster

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Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

John Locke

Lying, Men, Thinking

John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.192, Courier Corporation

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I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

B. C. Forbes

Faces, Faults, Facts

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Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility, Pride

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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Baron de Montesquieu

Government, Law, Republic

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The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

Leonard L. Berry

Done, Research, Firsts

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It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect.

George Washington

Would Be, Firsts, Aids

George Washington, William Jackson (1838). “Monuments of Washington's Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.10

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Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Ignorance, Two, Twenties

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Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

W. Edwards Deming

Doe, Absence

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If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement mass surveillance here. We're not going to do that. That's where all of the data centres, all the service providers in the world will relocate to. And I think that gives us a real chance to see a more liberal than authoritarian future.

Edward Snowden

Country, Real, Thinking

Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I am. I can't eradicate my defects. I can work on them."

George Saunders

Thinking, Might, Path

Source: therumpus.net

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Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable, but there's a different kind of value - and a competitive edge - in processing ongoing streams of data through a software model that can quickly and constantly make predictions about, say, whether a certain customer is going to defect, or an aircraft is going to run into trouble.

Kevin Maney

Running, Data, Six Months

Source: bobmorris.biz

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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Plato

Government, Lust, Lovers

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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

Plato

Errors, Matter, Poet

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

Aldous Huxley

Country, Nature, Class

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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