Top 159 Deficiency Quotes & Sayings

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

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.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

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.

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

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.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

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.

Folic acid deficiency does the same thing as radiation.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

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?

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.

Your eyes will adjust to the level of deficiency

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

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.

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

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.

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

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.

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

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.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Khabib is very tough, has phenomenal wrestling and sambo, but he has a huge deficiency on the feet so I can catch him. Nothing is impossible.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.

... 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.

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.

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.

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.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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.

All chronic and degenerative diseases are caused by two and only two major problems, toxicity and deficiency.

From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in any woman with a menstrual abnormality or a reproductive problem. It was generally agree that correction of thyroid deficiency solved many such abnormalities and problems - until about 1940.

Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases with progesterone, thyroid extracts and vitamin E respectively. In theory, thyroid therapy appears to be the least well-founded, especially when applied to women without manifest signs of hypothyroidism, yet among the measures mentioned above it is most frequently claimed to have been successful.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

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.

There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.

I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called on, without investigating the causes which occasioned it.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.

Your medical documents will say Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome that is AIDS. What that means you have got this challenge of immune deficiency. Alright what causes immune deficiency? HIV. Alright. Is that all that causes immune deficiency? The medical textbooks will say there are other things that cause immune deficiency. There is also genetic immune deficiency that is a different phenomenon.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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.