Inability Quotes - Page 10

• At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

  Marsha Norman

  Heart, Thoughtful, Play

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• No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

  Gerd Gigerenzer

  Focus, Risk, Everyday

  Gerd Gigerenzer (2015). “Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its utter inability to will what is good. While the opening of the prison to them that are bound is proclaimed in the gospel , the Spirit of God comes to the prison-door; opens it; goes to the prisoner, and, by the power of his grace, makes his chains fall off; breaks the bond of iniquity, wherewith he was held in sin so as he could neither will nor do anything truly good; brings him forth into a large place.

  Thomas Boston

  Spiritual, Fall, Doors

  "Select Works of Thomas Boston: With a Memoir of His Life and Writings".

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• There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Mystery, Obvious, Perceive

  "All Else Is Bondage: Non-Volitional Living". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1964.

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• Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

  Victoria Moran

  Fun, Exercise, Weight Loss

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• The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

  Chinua Achebe

  Responsibility, Air, Land

  Chinua Achebe (1984). “The Trouble with Nigeria”, p.1, Heinemann

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• There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Inspirational, Society, Disability

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• Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.

  Mike Donehey

  Great Love, Trying, God Love

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• Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

  Og Mandino

  Men, Goal, May

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

  Wangari Maathai

  Self Confidence, Apathy, Today

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• Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Real, Illiteracy

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• My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.

  Francis Chan

  Prayer, Focus, This Generation

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• To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Passion, Love Is, Flight

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.285, Princeton University Press

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• The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

  Nora Volkow

  Essence, Addiction, Drug

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• The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

  Bill Bartmann

  Self, Doubt, Growth

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• I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Order, Discipline

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.422

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• It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

  Zoë Heller

  Atheist, Imagination, Mind

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• The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Self, Soul, Negative

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• What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

  Robert Breault

  Blessing, Thinking

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• All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Roots, Sorrow

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• All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture and evaluate and assess and criticize mercilessly.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Angel, Posture, Incapacity

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• I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by goddamned yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?

  A.S. King

  Life, Mean, Yearbook

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• Hell is the inability to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inability To Love, Hell

  "It's time to make Shakespeare dangerous" by Simon Critchley, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

  Dennis Prager

  People, Political, May

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