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Quotes About Deficiencies

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.
~ Kenneth Clarke
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
~ C. A. R. Hoare
There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
~ C.A.R. Hoare
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good. The country is better off tranquilly considering its blessings and merits, and earnestly striving to secure more of them, than it would be in nursing hostile bitterness about its deficiencies and faults.
~ Calvin Coolidge
If one has a personality which PLEASES, and renders service in a spirit of HARMONY, these assets often make up for deficiencies in both the QUALITY, and the QUANTITY of service one renders. Nothing, however, can be SUCCESSFULLY SUBSTITUTED FOR PLEASING CONDUCT.
~ Napoleon Hill
It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
As Tony Hoare observed: There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
~ Kevlin Henney
Believing that success is about learning, students with the growth mindset seized the chance. But those with the fixed mindset didn't want to expose their deficiencies. Instead, to feel smart in the short run, they were willing to put their college careers at risk. This is how the fixed mindset makes people into nonlearners.
~ Carol S. Dweck
We know from our studies that people with the fixed mindset do not admit and correct their deficiencies.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. —C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture How
~ Thomas A. Limoncelli
thinking about the surpluses we can put back into circulation to decrease deficiencies that exist elsewhere in our world.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
~ Helen Keller
Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.
~ Thomas Oden
We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things
~ Tryon Edwards
healthy organizations have a way of making themselves smarter. Even if their ideas are temporarily inferior to those of competitors, they are usually humble and efficient enough to recognize their deficiencies and make changes in their plans before it is too late.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Even the best-conducted women [...] have an aversion for the impotent," [...] so one should conceal one's wounds and hide the crippling deficiencies of life – poverty, misfortune, sickness, ill-success. People begin by being touched and moved to tenderness by their friends' distress; presently this changes to pity, which has something humiliating about it; then to a masterful giving of advice; and then to scorn.
~ Patrick O'Brian
In December, 1861, arms purchased abroad began to come in, and a good many Enfield rifles were in the hands of the troops at the battle of Shiloh. The winter of 1862 was the period when our ordnance deficiencies were most keenly felt. Powder was called for on every hand; and the equipments most needed were those we were least able to supply.
~ Jefferson Davis
I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.
~ Junot Diaz
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
~ T. S. Eliot
Were goning through a self-evaluation offensively, not only to see what our deficiencies are, but to see the strengths we have.
~ Unknown
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
~ W. Edwards Deming