A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Quotes about shortcoming (13 Quotes)
Our experience from Iraq, for example, showed substantial intelligence shortcomings. You'd have to assume we too suffer from enormous intelligence shortcoming vis a vis Iran. That would be a problem.
Whether they like it or not, they are a media company. What they provide is very valuable aspects of media, all wrapped up in search. But they're missing the internal talent and internal capability to think like a media company. Everything is from a technology perspective, and that is a real shortcoming.
Despite the odd shortcoming, this Budget is on balance good. It entrenches South Africa's good fiscal record.
What we have to do is envision not tomorrow, but 20 years from now. Our shortcoming has always been not having that vision.
Whereas the degrees of rationality vary and some minds are distinguished over others, these clerks, if not convinced of what the Pasha has given them, must turn to their associates with the problem, and if all see an excess or shortcoming in the matter, then they should turn to the Pasha and present the requisite information.
We want to try and get our mental game right. That is shortcoming in Barbados' cricket - the way we prepare ourselves mentally and our general attitude going into first-class games.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat.
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.
Truthfully, I mean, it was a combination of both, ... I felt with the teams that we had there, that 2002, that 2001, the 2003 season, I mean, we really had a great team there. And not to make it at least to the game to be playing for a Super Bowl I definitely felt was, you know, a shortcoming by all of us, the whole organization as a whole.
The importance of doing this work can't be overstated. The fact that we're still using a vaccine developed in the early 1920s for a disease as serious as TB is a real shortcoming.
His shortcoming is his long staying.
This bill places unprecedented limits on eminent domain abuse. The one glaring shortcoming is the temporary exceptions for Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but even that does not dampen the near total victory this bill provides.