Poorly Quotes

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

To live life well is to express life poorly;

if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.

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.

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trial as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible of application.

Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done.

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly.

If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it;

for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.

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.

You'll hear people say now, 'Oh, I don't want to see something in 3-D.

That's wrong, because what they've seen is 3-D done poorly.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.

Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly.

The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot.

David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years.

In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.