Poorly Quotes

#1. If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.

Martin Fowler

#2. The bus's wipers slapped out of synch, like poorly rehearsed ballroom dancers, arms of a neophyte swimmer dogpaddling, wobbling grocery-cart wheel and its unencumbered mate.

Dennis Vickers

#3. Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.

William Shakespeare

#4. He cannot tolerate feelings of frustration as a more normal person can, and he is poorly able to rid himself of those feelings except through antisocial activity ...

Truman Capote

#5. It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

Raymond Loewy

#7. Leaders (Authors) are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
-Robert Jarvik

Taylor Lee

#8. If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

Fernand Point

#9. The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.

Henry Spencer

#10. They may ignore your achievements.
They may ridicule your vision.
They may speak poorly about you.

They will win, if you lose confidence.

Vala Afshar

#11. We can't always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#12. How poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

Amelia Barr

#13. I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.

Randy Alcorn

#14. It's better to do one thing well than ten things poorly.

Heather Hart

#15. I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

Alexei Navalny

#16. Exploratory wells located invariably by a set of deterministic seismic interpretations are drilled into reservoirs under uncertainty that is invariably poorly quantified, the geologic models yawning to be optimized by a mindset that is educated in a data-driven methodology.

Keith Holdaway

#17. The middle classes shouldn't be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That's not one-nation conservatism; it's two nations conservatism.

Tim Montgomerie

#18. Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness but into the safe embrace of a God whose love will heal all your wounds.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#19. Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Michael Porter

#20. It makes me very nervous and poorly,to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves.

Jane Austen

#21. In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

Werner Herzog

#22. In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts or laws, almost without sense or language, is poorly distinguished from the rest of the animal creation.

Edward Gibbon

#23. I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don't really like that kind of book.' It's akin to marking yourself as proudly poorly read.

Gillian Flynn

#24. More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

Anthony Weiner

#25. Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we're afraid of telling the truth.

Lauren Graham

#26. We won with the military. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people just won.

Donald Trump

#27. It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Jessica Lange

#28. You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.

George R R Martin

#29. Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

Bear Bryant

#30. A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.

Vladimir Putin

#31. If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

Kgalema Motlanthe

#32. Maybe I went a bit too far, but that's what people want now. There's an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature. Everyone wants to see children treated badly. So that ... well, so that when they triumph over evil we all feel lifted up. It's inspirational.

Tony Burgess

#33. poorly performing investments, and stagnating or falling wages. At the same time there are, we are told, more billionaires than ever. The rich

Harvey Walsh

#34. the poorly typed lines, the symbols and abbreviations of Internet chat that make such language seem so much like a process of decay. As

Garth Greenwell

#35. If it's a man's world, as they say, then men: your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

Henry Rollins

#36. Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.

Ilana Mercer

#37. Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

David Walton

#38. My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.

Stephen Colbert

#39. Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?

Ted Rall

#40. Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

Neal Shusterman

#41. The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

Stephen King

#42. Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show

Shannon Lynette

#43. Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

Victor Papanek

#44. ...holding your hand out and making a gesture that, in the surreal parrallel universe of the classroom would suggest that instruction, but anywhere else would be taken for a drunkard's poorly achieved impression of an epileptic spider failing to negotiate a hairpin bend.

Phil Beadle

#45. poorly. Then I fell

Mary Harrison

#46. Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Aaron Hill

#47. Word is actually very busy and strikes me as poorly designed. It's cluttered. There are four different rows, each filled with icons and butters I never use. This reminds me why I dislike Word. I almost always type in WordPress as it's much less cluttered. I'm on an airplane without WiFi.

Mike Cernovich

#48. My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is evidenced by the fact that you're reading a very sloppy and poorly researched book.

Dave Barry

#49. Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

Blake Russell

#50. The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two sentences together is extremely hard and I just can't make the connections.

Edward Hirsch

#51. Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#52. Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.

Frederick Lenz

#53. Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#54. I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

Peter Lynch

#55. The best don't stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids who are suffering from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and they have no way of getting access to the remedies that are available to them.

Scott Stossel

#57. I taught my sons to be men. I don't care who they love. I care about how they act. The moment they stop having manners or treat someone poorly, then we'll have words. Other than that, I only want them to be happy, and if you make Kane happy, then all I have to say to ye is welcome to the family.

Rhys Ford

#58. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

Ray Dalio

#59. [Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

Claude Bernard

#60. If you're eating poorly, neglecting your health, or living a high-stress lifestyle, you're depleting your inner resources. That will make it difficult to maintain the energy you need to participate fully and actively in your life.

Lauren Mackler

#61. All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers are good storytellers.

Nupur Tustin

#62. It's far better to do less and do it well,
than to do too much and do it poorly.
Sometimes you have to push yourself away from the table and say, "I'm full.

Monika Kristofferson

#63. One thing I've learned, Sasha," said Rex, "is that no matter how poorly thought out a plan is, there's always a chance it will succeed unless I'm directly involved." "You

Robert Kroese

#64. The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

Frederick Lenz

#65. You'll hear people say now, 'Oh, I don't want to see something in 3-D. That's wrong, because what they've seen is 3-D done poorly.

Michael Bay

#66. Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

Elliott Abrams

#67. Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.

Richard Hamming

#68. But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti.

Andrew Hunt

#69. Every day some scientist discovered a new species of frog or waterlily, and that, too, seemed to confirm some divine showman, some celestial inventor putting new toys before us, hidden but hidden poorly, just where we might happen upon them.

Dave Eggers

#70. We lead our lives so poorly because we arrive in the present always unprepared, incapable, and too distracted for everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#71. For your pleasure I'm creating a collection of erotic drawings so poorly rendered that I feel certain they will completely shake your belief in my understanding of human anatomy.

Ginn Hale

#72. If you treat your wife poorly do not think you'd treat Jesus well.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#73. I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.

Barack Obama

#74. Joseph Beringer ... dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts.
'I don't even wear skirts,' I snap at him.
'Especially,' he says, 'in my daydreams.

Maggie Stiefvater

#75. A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

Isaac

#76. There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

Sandra Bernhard

#77. The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

Dennis Miller

#78. Poorly written classes equal unhappy end users. That's not a happy equation.

Brian Overland

#79. A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.

Stephen Fry

#80. The only reason you continue to love someone who treats you poorly is because you don't value yourself enough.

Rob Liano

#81. Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

Henry Beard

#82. And it is these heavily armed and poorly paid men who are entrusted with the work of protecting the citizenry.

Teju Cole

#83. Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.

Michael Mann

#84. The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife
because the music hadn't been beautiful enough.

George Carlin

#85. A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.

Vincent De Paul

#86. Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

Hans F. Sennholz

#87. Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

#88. I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

Daniel Goleman

#89. People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear.

John Scalzi

#90. I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.

Patrick Leahy

#91. When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

Dierks Bentley

#92. We were scared. I guess when you're in your twenties, that's how it is. You've got an adult body, but you're trying to make it work with a kid's emotions. With Marilyn and me, it was worse. Our kid emotions didn't even work. We'd been treated too poorly.

Tony Curtis

#93. The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.

Sue Townsend

#94. Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Robert Baden-Powell

#95. When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.

Tom Lehman

#96. It's so free to know that I do not have to compensate or make excuses for being treated poorly in relationships. I can simply move forward knowing I deserve better

Renae A. Sauter

#97. The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

John Green

#98. IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Lawrence Wright

#99. It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.

Zachary Cole Smith

#100. While the official church was moribund, the house churches kept alight the flame of Christian witness. The church survived as a lay movement, often led by poorly educated Bible women who memorized Scripture and passed on the faith to family members and (if they dared) to neighbors and friends.

Kim-Kwong Chan