Quotes About Inadequacy

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.

I tell her how sorry I am, and as I speak my words feel inadequate and pathetic.

Das Ungenügen mit sich selbst ist der eigentliche Stachel.

When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he or she is often made to feel that this is a mark of social inadequacy and that there is something comical about it. The younger the human being, the more humorous it becomes. So that humans whose inclination it is to think and speak in this way become self-conscious from an early age, and a kind of minstrelisation creeps in.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

He speaks passionately, waving his arms. But it is clear that he is searching for words, and that the words which come to him seem inadequate to express what moves him.

Contempt says: "You should disappear as such a being as you have shown yourself to be -- failing, weak, flawed, and dirty. Get of my sight: Disappear!

He let me be a student of a love that I will never be able to give.

A proud heart may suffer from an inferiority complex or low self-esteem, even though these problems may seem incompatible with a heart ruled by pride. However, the insecure-yet-proud don't feel inferior due to moral failures or spiritual inadequacies, but rather because they don't measure up to the things they crave or believe are essential for their well-being.

The good and the generous action of which we feel incapable is a reproach when done by another.

Bingle shot Quentin a glance to the effect of, you have no idea how to be a king, literally none. The

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

Society routinely degrades fathers. Men are typically depicted by Hollywood as inadequate and useless beings who are nothing more than comedic props.

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

I was probably around 14 or 15 when I became really conscious of those girls who were going on to the Royal Ballet school, and that I was not Royal Ballet school material, not by a long stretch.

What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.

We have reached a veredict, your honor. This man's heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.

Jealousy is really an umbrella term for a constellation of feelings including envy, competitiveness, insecurity, inadequacy, possessiveness, fear of abandonment, feeling unloved, and feeling left out. To say simply "I am jealous" is far too vague, since it means different things to different people and it manifests itself in so many diverse ways.

It wasn't just hostility I felt around my mother, it was inadequacy. I had loved my early childhood with her. We'd spent long hours playing beauty parlor and teay party, baking holiday cookies.

Our anger is a product of our insecurities.