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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are. -- Wayne Dyer
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. -- Joshua Reynolds
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. -- Walter Bagehot
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. -- John C. Maxwell
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. -- J. William Fulbright
I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency? -- Richard Cobden
He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency. -- Benjamin Franklin
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. -- Emile M. Cioran
You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency. -- Linus Pauling
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions. -- Hans Kung
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF -- Anatoly Karpov
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF. -- Anatoly Karpov
Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies. -- Dorothy Gilman
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. -- Helen Keller
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. -- George C. Marshall
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate -- James Hillman
Diabetes mellitus is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the pancreas. The main principle of treatment is, therefore, to correct this deficiency. -- Frederick Banting
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
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes. -- Douglas Adams
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. -- William Hazlitt
A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness. -- Slash
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. -- David Antin
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences. -- John Stuart Mill
In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause real estate to keep going up. Not fast, but it'll go up. -- Harry Triguboff
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap -- Jacques Barzun
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. -- Jacques Barzun
We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency. -- Nancy Gibbs
I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency -- Anatoly Karpov
I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency. -- Anatoly Karpov
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses. -- Saint Basil
In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that. -- John Prescott
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. -- Augusto Roa Bastos
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves. -- J. G. Ballard
Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them. -- Richard J. Roberts
If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency. -- Yossi Vardi
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments. -- Hans Rosling
In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure. -- Douglas Fairbanks
If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency. -- Brene Brown
I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image. -- Rush Limbaugh
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell. -- E. F. Benson
Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away. -- J. Maarten Troost
Excess and deficiency are equally at fault. -- Confucius
Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency. -- N. F. Simpson
Your eyes will adjust to the level of deficiency -- Iyanla Vanzant
Folic acid deficiency does the same thing as radiation. -- Bruce Ames
Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency. -- Vance Havner
Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes -- Benny Bellamacina
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However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry. -- Lionel Shriver
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. -- Charles Caleb Colton
There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency. -- Richard Simmons
Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. -- Hannah Arendt
Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency. -- Greg Proops
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . -- Aristotle
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean. -- Aristotle
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains. -- Horace Greeley
A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise. -- Shinichi Suzuki
What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering. -- Helmut Thielicke
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. -- Aristotle
Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency -- Linus Pauling
All chronic and degenerative diseases are caused by two and only two major problems, toxicity and deficiency. -- Charlotte Gerson
All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing. -- Rian Johnson
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation. -- Robert H. Frank
These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. -- Margaret Atwood
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste. -- Denis Diderot
If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you. -- Wahb ibn Munabbih
When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education. -- Mark Steyn
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics. -- Francis Bacon
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life. -- William Feather
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else. -- Jane Austen
My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty. -- Erma Bombeck
Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency. -- Thabo Mbeki
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases. -- Stephen Levine
We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less. -- Benito Mussolini
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood. -- Samuel Johnson
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget? -- Robert Peel
The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic. -- Harriet Martineau
Dreams are like living things; they can grow, they can suffer disabilities, they can have deficiency diseases and they can also die off when they meet unfavourable and favourable conditions respectively. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism. -- George Trumbull Ladd
I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less. -- Ransom Riggs
... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry. -- Bliss Perry
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable. -- Justus von Liebig
Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data. -- William S. Burroughs

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