Inadequate Quotes - Page 8

• Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

  Robert Smithson

  Hopeless, Form, Seems

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.

  Anita Moorjani

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Perfect

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• There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mother, Baby, Father

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.

  Henry Knox

  Balance, Essentials, Welfare

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• Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Women, Mean

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• I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

  Carl Jung

  People, Wrong Answers, Neurotic

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Rude, Making Love, Criticism

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• I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.

  Hugh Herr

  Technology, Views, Broken

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• What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Views, Suffering, Deficiency

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• Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training.

  Steve Ilg

  Self Esteem, Training, Mojo

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• Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

  Marianne Williamson

  Greatest Fear, Fabulous, Brilliant

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of 'A Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, Ch. 7, Section 3, 1992.

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• I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too – sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling – and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lonely, Drama, Acceptance

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• When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?

  Pema Chodron

  Lonely, Warrior, Perspective

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.90, Shambhala Publications

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• I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means of violence is still so inadequate that I think state building remains a major challenge. And until the militias can be reined in and the authority of the democratically-elected state can really be firmly established, there’s still tremendous fragility and vulnerability in the unfolding story in Libya.

  Larry Diamond

  Mean, Thinking, Order

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, War, Past

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• Anger is a response that can lead to harm if we don't evaluate what we are upset about. Ask yourself what you are afraid of, as anger is almost always fear in disguise. If we think something or someone threatens us, we feel fear-fear that we are inadequate, that our lives are out of control, that things won't go our way. Then we fight. Find out what you're upset about. We rarely are upset for the reason we think.

  Jennifer James

  Anger, Fighting, Thinking

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

  Mark Twain

  Fall, Skins, Legs

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3305, Delphi Classics

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• The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.

  James Bryant Conant

  Fighting, Science, Prejudice

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• Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

  Rollo May

  Saint, Divinity, Form

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

  Norman Cousins

  Despair, Bombs, Next

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• I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, People, Track

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• The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

  John Major

  War, Men, Regimes

  "John Major dismisses Blair's Iraq war reasoning" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2010.

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• Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Stupid, Writing, Self

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• I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?

  Olivia Thirlby

  Girl, Shapes, Skinny

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

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• A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Would Be, Fiction

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.96, Macmillan

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