Quotes About Ineptitude

I hate traveling with amateurs.

Now we had a stupid silence, the kind that always descends on people who are half in the bag.

Most haven't a clue as to how socially inept their own actions are.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The sinner I was expecting was guilty of pride, lust and spiritual despair, not merely of sloth and ineptitude. This was the diary of a nobody. So I nearly censored January to June 1933 in the interests of Grandpa's glamour as a Gothic personage. But in truth this is what we should be exposed to - the awful knowledge that when they're not breaking the commandments, the anti-heroes are mending their tobacco pipes and listening to the wireless.

Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.

My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. That is to say, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

I hate traveling with amateurs.

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

Stupidity is like art. Everyone can do it, but only the truly gifted are masters at it.

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

It's hard to pull your foot out of your mouth... ...when your head is up your ass.

You couldn't hit the ball with a steam iron today

The prime principle of employing force in pursuit of national objectives is to ensure that it is effective. The Germans failed to achieve this against Britain in 1940–41, a first earnest of one of the great truths of the conflict: while the Wehrmacht often fought its battles brilliantly, the Nazis made war with startling ineptitude. The Luftwaffe, instead of terrorising Churchill's people into bowing to Hitler's will, merely roused them to acquiesce in defiance.

I once asked Leon Festinger, one of the smartest men in the world, whether or not he ever felt inept. He replied, "Of course! That is what keeps you ept.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

The ineptitude and folly of the bishops' and popes' chatter would disturb us, if we old Catholics had not fortunately learned as little children to sleep during the sermon.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.