Shortcomings Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Desire, Trying, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently: as essential to being human and to human progress, individual and collective.

  Brian Boyd

  Art, Past, Progress

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.

  Andras Angyal

  Love, Real, Heart

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• We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Strong, Integrity, Wish

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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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• There is no effort without error or shortcoming.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Errors, Effort, Daring Greatly

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Political, World, Stability

  "A frugal superpower’s rules" by Michael Mandelbaum, www.japantimes.co.jp. OCtober 20, 2010.

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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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• George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.

  Emilio Botin

  Political, Intellectual, One Sentence

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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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  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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• If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.

  Keith Millard

  Football, Mistake, Firsts

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• The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

  J. I. Packer

  Two, Church, Needs

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.69, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

  Orson Scott Card

  Soul, Good Souls, Ifs

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1728, Macmillan

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• The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mind, Unlimited, Ability

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.208, Penguin

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