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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
It is just as painful to me when I do poorly. If the fault is all mine, that's what's painful. If it's a situation where no one could have succeeded, I don't feel as bad.
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.
You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].
Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?
Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.
Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.
I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.
I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.
I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.
Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.
When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.
The Biden Administration's Executive Actions have attracted an influx of migrants seeking to take advantage of irresponsible and poorly thought-out immigration policy.
I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.
Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.
Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.
If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.
What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.
If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.
I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.
The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough.
The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.
I wouldn't say I handle attention well. I'd say I stumble over pick-up lines poorly. I'm not good at any of that.
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.
I will make the argument that we are poorly adapted to our current environment. I mean, we did not evolve to sit all day and be exposed to giant amounts of really tasty food.
Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.
I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realised that my life wasn't so bad.
We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.
A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.
And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.
When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.
Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.
Both the benefit and the terrifying aspect of standup is when it's going poorly, you've only yourself to blame. There's no one to bail you out. But when it's going great, all that approval is for you.
I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
I'm not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I've studied intently for 50 years, so I may know a thing or two. In my opinion, the JFK investigation was poorly handled.
A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.
If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.
Article 50 is very poorly written and raises more questions more answers.
My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is evidenced by the fact that you're reading a very sloppy and poorly researched book.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.
