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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. -- Bertolt Brecht
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. -- Bertolt Brecht
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. -- Charles Babbage
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. -- Nam June Paik
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. -- Ansel Adams
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. -- John Adams
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. -- T. S. Eliot
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. -- Haim Ginott
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. -- Betty Friedan
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. -- Marianne Williamson
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. -- Abraham Maslow
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. -- Abraham Lincoln
Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love. -- Lan Samantha Chang
The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate. -- Mina Loy
Inadequate nutrition can lead to terrible health consequences, both physical and emotional. -- Vicki Escarra
Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity. -- Jakob Nielsen
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. -- Ed Palubinskas
Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!. -- Meg Ryan
The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate. -- Ben Crenshaw
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. -- Abraham Lincoln
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. -- Ben Shahn
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. -- Scott Adams
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit. -- Christian Dior
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. -- Walter Benjamin
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. -- John Major
If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. -- Janet Napolitano
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. -- Herman Kahn
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers. -- Derek Bok
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other... -- John Quincy Adams
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. -- Wilson Mizner
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. -- Helen Fisher
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it. -- Amit Bhatia
I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate. -- Jack Canfield
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly. -- Julia Child
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. -- Richard P. Feynman
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. -- Christopher Hampton
A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor. -- Margaret Chan
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love. -- Gary Zukav
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. -- John Adams
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is. -- Anthony Doerr
Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood. -- Harriet Lerner
The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail. -- Leo Buscaglia
Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate. -- Maria Shriver
Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content. -- Robert Smithson
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence. -- Wendell Berry
Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art? -- Susanne Katherina Langer
it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. -- John Steinbeck
I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language. -- Beth Revis
All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. -- John Dewey
One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant. -- Sun Tzu
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams. -- Steven Millhauser
Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training. -- Steve Ilg
Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago. -- Gertrude Atherton
Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate. -- Jess C Scott
Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate. -- Jess C Scott
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. -- Sylvia Plath
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. -- Jane Addams
Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. -- Nelson Mandela
I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other. -- Domenico Gnoli
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. -- Janet Burroway
It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate. -- Louie Giglio
What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering. -- Helmut Thielicke
The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources. -- Jurgen Habermas
An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short. -- Malcolm Forbes
I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work. -- Phil Jackson
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. -- John Ambrose Fleming
There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior's perspective and contact bodhichitta? -- Pema Chodron
Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original. -- Terry Teachout
The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child. -- Craig Stadler
Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate. -- Warren Farrell
We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed. -- Stanley Kunitz
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt. -- Gail Porter
Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow. -- David Deutsch
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. -- Vita Sackville-West
You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid. -- Larry David
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. -- Carl Jung
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. -- Ron Wyden
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. -- Patricia A. McKillip
It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal. -- Ralph W. Moss
The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. -- Bill Gates
When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. -- John Lydon
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. -- Stanislav Grof
I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know. -- John Grisham
Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently. -- Stephen Stills
This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter. -- Robert Fulghum
Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity. -- Rollo May
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate. -- Alicia Keys
I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate. -- Hugh Herr
One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal. -- Richard Livingstone
When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images. -- Mia Wasikowska
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched. -- Erika Slezak
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. -- Marianne Williamson
People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms. -- David Lloyd-Jones
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. -- Grace Slick
As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate. -- Arlen Specter
No' seems such a flimsy and inadequate little word to express how very little interest I have in hearing you rambling on about that particular topic. -- FayJay
Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. -- Charlie Munger
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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. -- Philip Bobbitt
Our system is not fit for purpose. It's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes. -- John Richard Reid
It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty. -- Albert Kesselring
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. -- DeForest Soaries
It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate. -- Geena Davis
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. -- George Eliot
What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in -- Simon Barnes
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution. -- John Thune
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. -- Eric Bogosian
A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed. -- Steve Backley
If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate. -- Simone Weil
To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse. -- Adolf Galland
Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty. -- Daido Moriyama
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. -- Louise Hay

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