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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.


Jean de la Bruyere
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.


Walter Bagehot
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It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.


Jeffrey Katzenberg
Tags: Business Our Go
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My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.


Kenny Rogers
Tags: Music Life Part
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft
Tags: World Thing Most
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
Tim Wise
At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
Marsha Norman
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.
Heber J. Grant
Tags: Me Because Mother
When we become immobilized by our own inability to deal directly with what is a commonly perceived truth and reality, we are in trouble as a nation.
Lou Dobbs
Tags: Truth Our Own
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike
Tags: Just How Us
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
Ida B. Wells
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
Lawrence Lessig
Tags: About Just Know
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
Joe Wright
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
Jurgen Habermas
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Hideki Tojo
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.
Fred Armisen
Tags: Time Work Think
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.
Siri Hustvedt
Tags: Think Know Which
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
Khaled Hosseini
Tags: Our Way World
Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.
Paul Kalanithi
If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.
Hugh Jackman
Tags: You Me About
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.
Julian Schnabel
Tags: Time Work Great
I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.
Clayton Christensen
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
Brene Brown
Tags: Good Trust Love
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.