Quotes About Lack

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Imagination comes of not having things.

The problem is not a lack of churches, but a lack of true ministers, and believers that really are followers of Christ.

And just for the record, I think he needed to be a little more assertive with the woman he loved. That's why he lost her to Lancelot, you know. Lack of assertiveness. A man needs to be ready to lay down his life for the woman he loves. But first he's got to let her know that she's adored.

True salvation is a state of freedom — from fear, from suffering, from a perceived state of lack and insufficiency and therefore from all wanting, needing, grasping, and clinging.

Negativity, lack, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, are perceived more and more as moral faults-worse, as a corruption at the level of our very being or bare life.

Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.'

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

I don't play golf. I don't know anything about golf.

It's always difficult not playing games and that match fitness and sharpness is something you always lack when you don't get that opportunity.

There's definitely a lack of self-belief in many players, which is the only complaint I have about men's tennis.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

I'm not good at talking politics. I'm probably not well-versed enough to speak out, but I do have my opinions and my feelings and frustrations, especially with regards to the environment and sustainability and our lack of taking care of what we have.

In Afghanistan, I was talking to Afghan elders who were world-weary of a lack of sustained attention from their own government and from the international community to stop problems early.

We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.

You cannot have the financial system crippled because of lack of decision making and lack of quality people.

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

Many people have sacrificed themselves for others, thinking when they sacrifice themselves they are being a good person. Wrong! To sacrifice yourself can only come from thoughts of absolute lack, because it is saying, "There is not enough for everyone, so I will go without." Those feelings do not feel good and will eventually lead to resentment

It is not people who are giving you the things you desire. If you hold that false belief, you will experience lack, because you are looking at the outside world and people as the supply. The true supply is the invisible field, whether you call that the Universe, the Supreme Mind, God, Infinite Intelligence, or whatever else.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

you missed what you didn't have far more than you appreciated what you did have. It was for this reason he'd always felt that owning things was overrated. All you were doing was alleviating the disappointment of not owning them.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation, she said. Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

drinking, my distraction, my utter lack of pleasure in things—this last, I learned, called anhedonia, which to me sounded like the name of a flower Max never planted in the garden I never wanted.

And yet what precisely is this 'greatness'? Just where, or in what, does it lie? I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question, but if I were forced to hazard a guess, I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it out.