To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. — Lu Xun
Better to have a diamond with a few small flaws than a rock that is perfect. — Indian Proverbs
Short Defect Quotes
Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them — John Bosco
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. — Jawaharlal Nehru
In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items. — Phil Crosby
A cheap thing doesn't lack defect, nor an expensive thing quality. — Afghan Proverbs
Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them. — W. Edwards Deming
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
I'm a good person, but with many defects. — Enrique Iglesias
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects. — Philip Neri
What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester? — Jim Norton
Defect Image Quotes
Zero Defect Quotes
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. — Dixie Lee Ray
For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge. — W. Edwards Deming
Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube. — W. Edwards Deming
In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations. — John Daly
Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment. — Narendra Modi
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero. — Ayn Rand
Character Defect Quotes
Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective. — Noah Webster
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me. — Anne Lamott
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed. — Ray Allen
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time. — H. P. Blavatsky
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time. — Helen P. Blavatsky
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. — Jacqueline Bisset
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. — Aldous Huxley
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition. — Anna Quindlen
In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth. — Francis Parkman
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. — Margaret Halsey
Birth Defect Quotes
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. — Margaret Sanger
Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result. — J. Edwin Orr
Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives. — Margaret Sanger
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. — Condoleezza Rice
I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect. — Carrie Fisher
It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences. — E.W. Jackson
I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue. — Constance Marie
Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery. — Heidi Murkoff
I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories. — Ariel Winter
Software Defect Quotes
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. — Wietse Venema
A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects. — Barry Boehm
Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack. — Tom DeMarco
Defect-free software does not exist. — Wietse Venema
Having A Defect Quotes
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly. — Hippocrates
I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people. — John Climacus
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking. — Tony Attwood
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology. — Ernest Renan
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." — Theodore Roosevelt
I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man. — Mindy Kaling
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime. — John Desmond Bernal
With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten? — Marcello Mastroianni
A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully. — Wolfgang Smith
Defect Person Quotes
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day. — Edgar Cayce
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all. — Peter Singer
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature. — Jane Porter
Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective — Bertrand Russell
The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way? — Katharine Hamnett
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. — Lawrence G. Lovasik
The person I like most is the one who points out my defects — Umar
I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog. — Mindy Kaling
I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations. — B. H. Liddell Hart
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. — Spencer W. Kimball
Defects Of Character Quotes
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects. — Bill Vaughan
No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character. — Swami Vivekananda
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh. — W. Somerset Maugham
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. — Margaret Halsey
We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws. — Mardy Grothe
I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. — 50 Cent
No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate. — Charles Dickens
I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what. — Randy Newman
To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today. — Thurgood Marshall
I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something. — Edmonia Lewis
Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours. — Rose Philippine Duchesne
Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse. — Thom Yorke
I would never be the first to bring up whitening, because just by bringing it up, you're shaming the patient a little bit. You're talking about their self-image. As long as there's no structural defect in the tooth, I would never bring up whitening. — Mark Burhenne
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. — Ambrose Bierce
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. — Albert Camus
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices. — Sergei Prokofiev
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls! — Pierre Corneille
Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization. — Margaret Sanger
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. — Herodotus
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself. — Saint Augustine
These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men. — Sun Tzu
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects. — William Wilberforce
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. — Carter G. Woodson
God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees our value. What did Jesus know that enabled Him to do what He did? Here’s part of the answer: He knew the value of people. He knew that each human being is a treasure. And because He did, people were not a source of stress, but a source of joy. — Max Lucado
It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart. — Octavius Winslow
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. — C. S. Lewis
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