Top 615 Inability Quotes & Sayings

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].

Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.

There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important.

In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.

that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

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

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

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

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive.

What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.

Hell is the inability to love.

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

Disability is the inability to see ability.

I just have an inability to lie.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.

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

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

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.

The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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.

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.