Quotes About Inadequacy

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked

India has struggled with the inadequacy of modern energy for a long time. Noncommercial energy commonly known as "biomass"—wood and agricultural and animal waste—has been the fuel for more than half of India's population. In terms of commercial energy, India depends on coal for over half of its total energy, and almost 75 percent of electricity.

As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up. Collin

I feel less and less up to the requirements of my life

By ostentation and propinquity to the throne, small men are able to avoid facing their own inadequacy.

The air-conditioning was more like a vague gesture toward the abstract idea of air-conditioning.

What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other people? What if he was simple ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain organs? The neurology of failure. What if he was simply born and destined to live in the shadow of Total Fear and Despair, and all his so-called activities were pathetic attempts to distract him from the inevitable?

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Es una verguenza decirlo pero, mierda, no sé bailar salsa.

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate.

Gdybym istotnie przy tej jaÅ'owi?nie, przy tej niemocy czynu, posiadaÅ' nawet genialne zdolnoÅ›ci, to byÅ'bym jakimÅ› szczególnym rodzajem geniusza bez teki.

If you want to find a child's weakness, failures, personal problems, or inadequacies, you'll discover them. If you look at a child through the filter of her or his environment or economic status, and make judgments through the filters of your own cultural, gender, and racial biases, you'll find the characteristics you expect.

I don't have the words. I want to touch her, but I don't deserve it.

You were always good,' he says, looking down at me. 'Just never good enough.

You were always good," he says, looking down at me. "Just never good enough.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

I had to settle for two of the most inadequate words in the English language, words to pale to express what I needed to say. "Thank you.

She had done all she could. It didn't feel like enough. Nothing, in fact, ever did.

He purchased that great canvas also bearing the likeness to his beloved, for he could not bear another to look upon what he dreamed each night...but as he now had enjoyed the quite singular pleasure of his wife's true form revealed to him, he knew he would have [it] returned... At one time he had thought it quite impossible, but now he understood how truly inadequate the vision cast by his mind's eye had been.

Beauty reminds us of our inadequacies, of our mortality, of our limits. Beauty tells us of our short-comings, but also of what is possible.

Perhaps Beauty, real Beauty, is actually the opposite of feeling inadequate, it's feeling full and accepted and part of the ever-present life refulgent around you.

Possibly from the outside this looks determinedly individual. Nobody realises what a mess of loneliness and inadequacy I am inside.