Top 100 Quotes About Inadequate
#1. The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#2. One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.
Richard Livingstone
#3. In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
Edna O'Brien
#4. All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
Walter Benjamin
#5. The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
Christian Dior
#6. The false dawn, with its illusions and mist-wrapped softness, can be as inadequate and fleeting as Morpheus' gifts. CHAPTER 2 The days became warmer the first week in April, and on some mornings I went out on the salt at dawn and seined
James Lee Burke
#7. Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.
Mors Kochanski
#8. 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
#9. the acquisition of knowledge without understanding is becoming increasingly inadequate
Knud Illeris
#10. One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.
Sun Tzu
#11. There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.
Laini Taylor
#12. When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
John Lydon
#13. An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.
Malcolm Forbes
#14. Paul turned her to face him. I see a breathtaking woman scared to death to see how beautiful she actually is, a woman refusing to live because she has spent her entire life feeling inadequate in her appearance, a woman who has nothing to be ashamed of.
Abby Niles
#15. If you are too occupied listening to the voice within you screaming how inadequate or unlovable you are, you won't be able to hear God whispering how much He loves you.
T.C. Slonaker
#16. You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.
Edward Hirsch
#17. Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.
Jakob Nielsen
#18. Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams
#19. Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.
Margaret Geller
#20. Here are some key words to go along with shame: Inferior Alienated Embarrassed Minority Ridiculed Weak Powerless Failure Different Insulted Rejected Inadequate Humiliated Ignored Loser
Edward T. Welch
#21. I think now that this obsession with identifying racism, which I saw so often among Somalis too, was really a comfort mechanism, to keep people from feeling personally inadequate and to externalize the causes of their unhappiness.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#22. I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it. - ALBERT EINSTEIN
Richard Dawkins
#23. Seemed to myself to be dull, boring, inadequate, thick brained, unlit, unresponsive, chill skinned, bloodless, and sparrow drab.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#24. I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
A.S. Byatt
#25. A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.
Clive Granger
#26. People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.
David Lloyd-Jones
#27. Whatever word you use to describe diving into the deepest part of a human. Take your pick; they're all woefully inadequate, but they're also all we have.
Marisa De Los Santos
#28. Topper was making her realise how calculatingly cruel and unsympathetic she was, how stubborn as a wife and inadequate as a friend. No
Thorne Smith
#29. When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves.
Louise Hay
#30. 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
#31. Continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.
Germaine Greer
#32. Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person and a very inadequate kind of Christian life.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#33. If American opinion has been uninformed, misinformed and prejudiced, the missionaries are largely to blame. Interpreting history in terms of the advance of Christianity, they have given an inadequate, distorted, and occasionally a grotesque picture of Moslems and Islam.
Noam Chomsky
#34. You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.
Anne Bronte
#35. Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.
Nelson Mandela
#36. Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.
Harriet Lerner
#37. There is not one moment when that feeling of inadequate sorrow goes away. It just lessens and lessens, until it is mostly a memory of itself.
David Levithan
#38. There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
Terry Teachout
#40. Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.
Liz Smith
#41. National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.
Carly Fiorina
#42. The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
Sam Harris
#43. 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
#44. I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.
Beth Revis
#46. The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
Ben Crenshaw
#47. When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#48. There is something about walking into a room full of boys that makes you feel exposed, inadequate, like you come up short in every way that matters. It didn't used to be like this, and I don't know when it changed, but now it feels like it was always this way.
Jenny Han
#49. If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.
Simone Weil
#50. Gansey bumped fists with Adam and they nodded at each other. It was stupid, inadequate.
Maggie Stiefvater
#51. Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
Anna Deavere Smith
#52. In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#53. I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.
John Grisham
#55. The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.
Mina Loy
#56. In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.
David Brinkley
#57. No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).
Frederic Bastiat
#58. It's an universal law
intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#59. The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily beneath reality, that the notion of a God revealed in human formborn, sufferin.
Oliver Lodge
#60. A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.
Wrong, I want to say.
In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.
In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.
Joan Didion
#61. What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in
Simon Barnes
#62. There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
Robert A. Heinlein
#63. Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
Robert Smithson
#64. Problems in producing evidence, e) sexist attitudes of magistrates, f) Paucity of reformatory homes, inadequate infrastructure facilities, poor quality of the staff and the corrective orientation towards rehabilitation. All these problems remain. It is
Anonymous
#65. I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.
Debra Winger
#66. The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.
Marianne Williamson
#67. When we are transported either by Mozart or Glenn Miller, we find ourselves in the presence of the ineffable, for which all words are so inadequate that to attempt to describe it, even with effusive praise and words of perfect beauty, is to engage in blasphemy.
Dean Koontz
#68. Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?
Georges Didi-Huberman
#69. I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.
Marianne Williamson
#70. You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
Larry David
#71. The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#72. While he slept the world spun on, changed, situations altered and grew more complex, left him more inadequate to deal with them.
William Gay
#73. We might possess every technological resource ... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
Adrienne Rich
#74. The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games.
Michael Lewis
#75. I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.
DeForest Soaries
#76. When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.
Harvey Gantt
#77. Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.
Frederick Lenz
#78. When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.
Dalai Lama
#79. No matter what I have done, no matter how I have failed, no matter how week I have been, no matter how inadequate I am, God has not changed. He has not failed.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#80. Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
#81. Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was.
Virginia Woolf
#82. Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have to do their learning virtually in secret, for anyone who admits the he has still something to learn devalues himself as a man whose knowledge is inadequate.
Bertolt Brecht
#83. Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them.
Ken Follett
#84. Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow
#85. We are not shut away into individual cages from which we can reach out only with inadequate words.
John Wyndham
#86. I didn't, because the idea of apologizing felt inadequate. I wasn't sure that I was ready to be forgiven. So I kept quiet and swallowed my guilt.
Penny Reid
#87. We stood there for long time. Neither one of us said anything. I felt small and insignificant and inadequate. I hated feeling that way. I was going to stop feeling that way. I was going to stop.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#88. When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.
Lev Grossman
#89. 1:5 God knew you, as he knew Jeremiah, long before you were born or even conceived. He thought about you and planned for you. When you feel discouraged or inadequate, remember that God has always thought of you as valuable and that he has a purpose in mind for you.
Anonymous
#90. Because I have a heart for God I also have a heart for women. As I hear their stories, I realize so many feel themselves to be inadequate. What a joy it is to believe them into doing those things they never believed they could do and being the people they never believed they could be.
Jill Briscoe
#91. I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#92. Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey speck of a man compared with the ruthless magnificent fellow he had dreamed of being ...
Edith Wharton
#93. For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.
Henry John Stephen Smith
#94. Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions.
Emil Cioran
#95. When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.
Mia Wasikowska
#96. When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one's soul with recognition. 'Heaven' seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as.
Victoria Kahler
#97. An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. If you only know your own side of a case, then your belief is likely to be inadequate. You need to be able to refute counter-arguments to your position otherwise you aren't justified in your belief even if it happens to be true.
Nigel Warburton
#99. God, baby, you're so beautiful." It sounds lame and inadequate, and I want to create a new word just for her. She deserves a new word. Hell, she deserves a whole fucking language.
Brighton Walsh
#100. Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
Charles Babbage
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