Quotes About Inadequacy

Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street.

No two months had ever left me feeling more inadequate. I was lonely almost all the time. I hated not knowing where I was going to sleep each night, was permanently anxious about train timetables and currency, found it difficult to make friends when I didn't trust anyone I met. And what could I say about myself, anyway? When people asked me, I could give them only the most cursory details. All the stuff that was important or interesting about me was what I couldn't share.

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb -- a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than you were rudely shocked in to consciousness by the alarm. That you might missed the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them.

Es pateicu vi?am, ka vi?u m?lu. Un vi?š man atbild?ja, ka ar to ir par maz.

It's pretty hard, feeling like you get everything wrong in the eyes of those you love.

But it's quite hard not to feel a bit deficient in the Department of Brain Cells.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect.

It all came out like word vomit — inadequacy, embarrassment, insecurity, neediness, and an attempt at a joke. But this last fell flat.

an idiot with delusions of military adequacy, but I expected better from the Guards. Not much, but a little.

You didn't want me to feel different, so you let me feel like a failure. I've always thought I was just a ... a terrible leopard. I can't jump, can't hunt, not like the others. I've been struggling to keep up my whole life. Different would have been better.

Intimacy in all human relationships—especially with God—can occur only as vulnerability and inadequacy are owned.

increased legibility of his handwriting only serves to reveal the inadequacy of his ability to spell

Nevertheless, despite his presence, here too regulation and supervision fell short.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

Everybody can relate to that feeling that, 'I'm having one of those days where I'm not doing anything right.'

I'm awful at hockey.

I don't think I'm a good host. I'm not a good host. I'm terrible at hosting. That's my problem.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

Why bother? It's impossible to compete with the dead.