Inability Quotes - Page 7

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize that, whether they like it or not, they are simply going to have to put up with what to them are excruciatingly slow mental processes, that we humans have embarrassingly low I.Q.'s, and that probably because of these defects, we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplist and most explicit of directions.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening in the world is all a symptom of our greater inability to deal with nature appropriately.

My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause in most of the incidents of hunger is lack of ability to pay for food. If we are looking for ways to end hunger then we should be looking at ways to ensure a reasonable level of income for all

The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.