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Deficiency Quotes

Lines on what is missing and how to respond.

This page collects quotes on "deficiency" across personal, medical, and fiscal contexts, including reframing failure as motivation rather than a flaw. See Lack for more.

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...

Quotes by Yossi Vardi

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.

Quotes by Saint Basil

Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.

Quotes by Matthew Walker

Micronutrient deficiency in the soil results in micronutrient malnutrition in people, since crops grown on such soils tend to be deficient in the nutrients needed to fight hidden hunger.

Quotes by M. S. Swaminathan

Deficiencies Quotes

Rice, wheat and other grains can help to address protein-calorie under-nutrition. But only attention to horticulture, milk and eggs can help to overcome hidden hunger caused by the deficiency of micro-nutrients like iodine, iron, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B12, etc.

Quotes by M. S. Swaminathan

It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary...

Quotes by John C. Calhoun

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.

Quotes by John C. Calhoun

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

Quotes by J. William Fulbright

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in...

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

Deficient Quotes

The hemorrhages in vitamin K deficiency develop in this way that minute vascular lesions caused by minor mechanical trauma are not closed by rapid clotting, as is the case in normal animals.

Quotes by Henrik Dam

In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause real estate to keep going up. Not fast, but it'll go up.

Quotes by Harry Triguboff

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.

Quotes by Frederick Banting

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand...

Quotes by Douglas Fairbanks

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

Quotes by Anatoly Karpov

Lack Quotes

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the...

Frequently Asked Questions

What different meanings of deficiency appear here?
The quotes cover personal failure, sleep deficiency and health, and historic fiscal deficiencies in government spending.
Does any quote treat failure positively?
Yes, one reframes failure not as a deficiency but as added motivation, citing examples of people who succeeded later.
Is sleep deficiency discussed in these quotes?
One sample warns that ongoing sleep deficiency can quietly compromise mental sharpness and physical health.
Are any of these quotes historical or political?
Two older quotes discuss voting on treasury deficiencies and avoiding unnecessary spending, reflecting fiscal debate.
Where can I find more quotes about lack or problems?
Try Lack or Problem for related reflections.

Older political voices also weigh in on avoiding unnecessary treasury deficiencies. Browse related Deficient and Problem quotes.