Top 98 Quotes About Deficiencies
#1. This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
Haile Selassie
#2. The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Victor Hugo
#3. Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.
Thomas Oden
#4. Been conscious of your deficiencies helps you trust more in the Lord
Sunday Adelaja
#5. Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.
Mors Kochanski
#6. But if intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to sharpen it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies - to use it as cats use stealth, as walking sticks use camouflage, to make it the tool of our survival.
Carl Sagan
#7. Instead, they are constantly trying to improve. They surround themselves with the most able people they can find, they look squarely at their own mistakes and deficiencies, and they ask frankly what skills they and the company will need in the future.
Carol S. Dweck
#8. I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.
James Hillman
#9. What's more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth, when they invest energy in developing their strenghts instead of correcting their deficiencies.
Tom Rath
#10. If there's an aspect of your life that's making you unhappy and you can escape from it, why wait? Too many people stick around and try to improve things, which often means slogging your guts out to compensate for the deficiencies of others. Personally, I'm a fan of the discard: leave it; move on.
Sophie Hannah
#11. As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.
Richard Whately
#12. If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#13. What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves
our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.
Margaret Atwood
#14. Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.
Margaret Weis
#15. As it turned out, Clark's shortcomings as a strategist - particularly failing to accurately take the measure of Milosevic - were as nothing in comparison to his deficiencies as a battlefield general.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#16. But the city makes up for its hazards and its deficiencies by supplying its citizens with massive doses of a supplementary vitamin-the sense of belonging to something unique, cosmopolitan, mighty and unparalleled ...
E.B. White
#17. Runners are bouncing up and down at the curb waiting for lights to change. Cops are in coffee shops dealing with bagel deficiencies.
Thomas Pynchon
#18. I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.
Emma Bell
#19. Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#20. So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.
Tony Hancock
#21. Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory.
Emil Cioran
#22. Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.
Jill Lepore
#23. She chose you for your deficiencies, not in spite of them, a new kind of mating strategy for millennial women whose priority is keeping the more disastrous fathers away, not establishing a nuclear family.
Ben Lerner
#24. The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
David Antin
#25. Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Aristotle.
#26. If, with a single glance, you could see everything in the world spread out before your eyes, how fruitless a sight that would be! Raise your eyes to God on high and pray for your sins and deficiencies.
Thomas A Kempis
#27. You never sit on your laurels. It is always a case of trying to work on your deficiencies as much as working on your strengths.
Brian O'Driscoll
#28. Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.
Dorothy Gilman
#29. It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
T. S. Eliot
#30. A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind ...
Joshua Reynolds
#31. Paleontological evidence suggests that the early farmers had more spinal issues, worse teeth, and more anemia and vitamin deficiencies - and died younger - than the populations of human foragers who preceded them.
Leonard Mlodinow
#32. All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.
Criss Jami
#33. Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#34. Yes, but everywhere needs some defence against people just coming in and overrunning the place with their terrorisms or their deficiencies, eh, sweetheart, Richard says. That's right, Terence says. Got to keep all those bad refugees out. The ones looking for a better life. Couldn
Ali Smith
#35. In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.
John Ruskin
#36. Character and attitude deficiencies are piercing thorns depending your handhold
Angelica Hopes
#37. As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
Hans Kung
#38. To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.
E. V. Lucas
#39. Insulin resistance has several possible causes like high intake of high-density carbohydrates, saturated and trans fatty acids, nutrient deficiencies and lack of exercise. Symptoms include symptoms are obesity, fatigue, frequent urination, increased thirst.
Insulin Resistance
#40. The quickest and easiest way to improve your health and mood is by taking omega 3 supplements, in the form of fish oils or flaxseed. Add a good general multivitamin and mineral daily as well, as this will ensure that any trace deficiencies causing health or mood problems are addressed.
Liz Miller
#41. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Samuel Johnson
#42. Not given to boasting, which was a waste of breath-only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world he has none.
Margaret Weis
#43. Arrogance is a veneer
a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
Bob Lewis
#45. Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.
Jean Giraudoux
#47. They lived before the Christian age began. They paid no reverence, as was due to God. And in this number I myself am one. 40 For such deficiencies, no other crime, we all are lost yet only suffer harm through living in desire, but hopelessly.
Dante Alighieri
#48. Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
Bernard Bailyn
#49. One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.
Paul Gallico
#50. The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.
Donald Phillip Verene
#51. Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#52. My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.
Gough Whitlam
#53. I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
Emile M. Cioran
#54. A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.
Charles Spurgeon
#55. We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.
Tryon Edwards
#56. I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.
George Saunders
#57. In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#58. Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.
Thomas Watson
#59. We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any.
Joe Arpaio
#60. It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school.
Robert Kennedy
#61. Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.
Ken Blanchard
#62. The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
Tariq Ramadan
#63. Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
W. Edwards Deming
#64. Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.
Robert Kennedy
#65. God isn't looking for powerful individuals who are strong, independent, courageous and self-sufficient. Rather, God is seeking vulnerable individuals who have weaknesses, deficiencies, inadequacies and who are willing to stop relying on their own abilities.
Dana Arcuri
#66. As we continue to look for "developmental deficiencies" in our maturation in Christ, how are you doing in the area of contentment? How quick is your impulse to find satisfaction in Christ, to go to the joy of the gospel in times of stress, frustration, disappointment, and trouble?
Matt Chandler
#67. Relatively speaking, I know what my other deficiencies are. Cosmetically, I'm not 28 and stunning. The fact that NBC appreciates what I do means a great deal to me because I know that without my reporting skills and my experience and all of that, I might not have a fighting chance.
Michele Tafoya
#68. The deficiencies of nature are what art and education seek to fill up.
Aristotle.
#69. It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient.
Keith Laumer
#70. We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination
Sunday Adelaja
#71. While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.
Mark Hyman
#72. In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.
John Prescott
#73. A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.
James Edwin Gunn
#74. This is one of the reasons that the organized religions do not inspire me with confidence. Which leaders of the major faiths acknowledge that their beliefs might be incomplete or erroneous and establish institutes to uncover possible doctrinal deficiencies?
Carl Sagan
#75. Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!
Jiri Kylian
#76. I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.
Junot Diaz
#77. Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller
#78. What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
Kurt Huber
#79. When you are faced with deficiencies instead of strengths and inclinations, this is the strategy you must assume: ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others.
Robert Greene
#80. Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
Ameen Rihani
#81. However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.
Kenneth Clarke
#82. The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
Samuel Johnson
#83. The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.
Tryon Edwards
#84. I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
Bill Moyers
#85. Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.
Lendon Smith
#86. Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for
potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other's deficiencies to
see their possibilities.
Gary Rohrmayer
#87. To analyze or assess a person's failings or deficiencies,' he declared to himself, 'is useless, not because such blemishes are immovable, but because they affect the mass of beholders in diverse ways. Different minds perceive utterly variant figures in the same being.
A.E. Coppard
#88. If you focus on the world's deficiencies and stop there, then you'll probably feel horrible and paralyzed. But why stop there? It's intellectually dishonest to focus on what's wrong with the world without acknowledging our rich history of overcoming incredible odds.
T.K. Coleman
#89. Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.
Les Greenberg
#90. Huxley suggests that the reason there aren't nearly as many mystics and visionaries walking around today, as compared to the Middle Ages, is the improvement in nutrition. Vitamin deficiencies wreak havoc on brain function and probably explain a large portion of visionary experiences in the past.
Michael Pollan
#91. In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.
Ezra Taft Benson
#92. As you raise your personal chi level, the rising tide of high energy may correct underlying deficiencies.
Catherine Carrigan
#93. It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#94. Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.
Orison Swett Marden
#95. By leaving a student to himself he may ... be led to undertake matters above his strength, but the trial will at least have this advantage: it will discover to himself his own deficiencies and this discovery alone is a very considerable acquisition.
Joshua Reynolds
#96. Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
William Hazlitt
#97. Chronic illness is not caused by a bad gene, or a Gypsy curse, nor is it a function of aging. Chronic disease is caused by chronic nutrient deficiencies.
Peter Glidden
#98.
Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.
Beryl Markham
