Inadequate Quotes

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal.

This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

Patch? Whatever happens, I love you." I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at the same time, so simple and accurate, nothing else would do.

The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

A ball is like a very disciplined child. It does exactly what it is told to do. Great information, great direction and great results. Inadequate information leads to inadequate results.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.