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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. -- Sigmund Freud
Depression is the inability to construct a future. -- Rollo May
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. -- Jean de la Bruyere
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. -- David Hare
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. -- Blaise Pascal
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. -- H. P. Lovecraft
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. -- Audre Lorde
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. -- John Updike
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
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art. -- Emile Zola
Inability to accept positive change is a hindrance to growth. -- Amitava Chowdhury
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. -- Alan Watts
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. -- John C. Maxwell
Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. -- Holger Czukay
We're not that strong anymore. (Hades) Oops, guess I screwed up. Inability to see the consequences of our thoughtless acts must run in the family. So much for my father being a god of prophecy, huh? (Stryker) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Inability to distinguish doctrine is spreading far and wide, and so long as the preacher is "clever" and "earnest," hundreds seem to think it must be all right, and call you dreadfully "narrow and uncharitable" if you hint that he is unsound! -- J. C. Ryle
Disability is the inability to see ability. -- Vikas Khanna
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. -- Walter Bagehot
The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible. -- Adam Braun
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf
I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem. -- Edie Brickell
The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels. -- Eli Broad
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. -- John Stuart Mill
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. -- Ezra Pound
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. -- William J. Clinton
Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia -- Edward James Olmos
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to. -- David Gilmour
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- James Thurber
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. -- Bobby Scott
Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems. -- Yuvraj Singh
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders -- Ida B. Wells
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders. -- Ida B. Wells
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete. -- Warren Farrell
I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting. -- Bradley Whitford
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia -- Hideki Tojo
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. -- Jurgen Habermas
The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives. -- Huston Smith
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world. -- Khaled Hosseini
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do. -- Siri Hustvedt
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. -- Betty Friedan
What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping. -- Eric Hoffer
As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me. -- Nicolas Cage
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few. -- Brene Brown
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck. -- James Altucher
His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death: a refusal to properly care for dementia sufferers, even when they are violent, and an equal inability to care for their carers. My dad died of dementia, but also because dying was the easiest way to treat him. -- Rose George
Hell is the inability to love. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I just have an inability to lie. -- Paloma Faith
Our real illiteracy is our inability to create -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification. -- Mike Murdock
There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything. -- Chogyam Trungpa
America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously. -- H. L. Mencken
The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. -- Orrin Woodward
The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves. -- Johnny Hunt
Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment. -- Dr. John
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves -- Bernie Siegel
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still. -- Blaise Pascal
I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important. -- Emo Philips
Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive. -- Sarah Silverman
The inability to lie is far from the love of truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. -- J. Paul Getty
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. -- J. Paul Getty
The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt. -- Bill Bartmann
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light. -- Simone Weil
The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths. -- Kathryn Schulz
All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone. -- Anthony de Mello
What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present -- Alan Watts
I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. -- Gillian Jacobs
The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless -- Georges Seurat
God does not ask your abilityOr your inability.He asks only your availability. -- Mary Kay Ash
All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice. -- Elliott Erwitt
Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something. -- Cory Booker
The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember. -- Mark Twain
Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. -- Carl Rogers
One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie. -- Billy Childish
The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer. -- Francis Chan
...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point. -- Stephen King
Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency. -- Chuck Todd
A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything. -- David Pogue
In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability. -- David Platt
that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws -- Audrey Niffenegger
One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help. -- Robert Kiyosaki
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. -- Alain de Botton
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. -- Albert A. Bartlett
Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste. -- Patti Smith
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. -- Albert A. Bartlett
Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be -- Og Mandino
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. -- Blaise Pascal
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices. -- George Carlin
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. -- Richard K. Morgan
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. -- Blaise Pascal
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly. -- Blaise Pascal
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse. -- Umberto Eco
There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more. -- Robert M. Hensel
The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. -- Epictetus
The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. -- Chris Hedges
The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious. -- Simon Mawer
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success -- Matthieu Ricard
Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things. -- Surya Das
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life. -- Brian Tracy
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. -- Nhat Hanh
The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around. -- Matthew Ashimolowo
What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in. -- Bill Cosby
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. -- Wayne Dyer
This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left. -- Kirsten Powers
My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships. -- Kenny Rogers
The only disease you have is your inability to see you have the power to heal yourself. -- Ralph Smart
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. -- Edward Teller
[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. -- Carl Sagan
There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ... -- Octavian Paler
The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding. -- Dana Gould

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