Shortcomings Quotes - Page 5

• The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

  Ralph Nader

  America, Leader, Political

  "The Good Fight". Book by Ralph Nader, 2004.

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• My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Mistake, Responsibility

  "Author Junot Diaz Shares Thanksgiving Memories". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2008.

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• One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.

  Andy Rooney

  Feelings, Vindictive, Strikes

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• The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Doubt, May

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• Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

  Hermann Broch

  Kitsch, Ethical, Aesthetic

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• Everyone on the Commission assumes that 9/11 resulted from a lack of government action. No one in Washington has raised the question of whether our shortcomings, brought to light by 9/11, could have been a result of too much government.

  Ron Paul

  Light, Government, Too Much

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• People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.

  Israel Gelfand

  Teacher, Goal, People

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• The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Imperfection, Needs, Release

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  You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

  Pete Rose

  Hustle, Overcoming

  Pete Rose, Bob Hertzel (1976). “Pete Rose's winning baseball”, Regnery Publishing

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• The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

  Martin Filler

  Successful, Cities, Expansion

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• For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Strong, Issues, Wikipedia

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• There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.

  Simon Hoggart

  Nhs, Reform, Use

  "Why the American right make me sick" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.

  Janet Jackson

  Stress, Feel Better, Thinking

  "Janet Jackson on body image, self-acceptance" by Alison Prato, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2010.

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• At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Character, Past, Years

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.

  Alcee Hastings

  Agency, Hands, Focus

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• There is no effort without error or shortcoming.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Errors, Effort, Daring Greatly

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• A lot of the things I find funniest about people are their shortcomings that they're oblivious to, but that they're constantly reminding everyone around them of.

  Emile Hirsch

  People, Reminding, Oblivious

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Reflection, Men

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• I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

  Robert Browning

  Writing, Belief, Conviction

  Robert Browning (2015). “Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett”, p.261, e-artnow sro

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• Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

  Maimonides

  Men, Substance, Body

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1009, Moses Maimonides

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• Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished, nor the way how we incur the punishment through them.

  Maimonides

  Fate, Men, Justice

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.23, 1190.

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• It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Games, Psychology, Dynamics

  Anatol Rapoport (1974). “Fights, Games, and Debates”, p.12, University of Michigan Press

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• The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.

  Ted Haggard

  Mean, Ideas, Sin

  Ted Haggard (2002). “Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings.

  Marc Cooper

  Long, Mind, Subtle

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• To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.

  Abraham Maslow

  Reality, Pay, Benefits

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