Quotes about Poorly

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. Votes: 3

Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands. Votes: 3

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. Votes: 3

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. Votes: 3

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. Votes: 3

I do sarcasm really poorly. Votes: 1

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. Votes: 1

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed. Votes: 1

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. Votes: 1

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader. Votes: 1

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. Votes: 1

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. Votes: 1

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. Votes: 1

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood. Votes: 1

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well. Votes: 1

One things guys have to remember is consistency... You can't make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout. Votes: 1

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed. Votes: 1

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. Votes: 1

One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids who are suffering from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and they have no way of getting access to the remedies that are available to them. Votes: 1

You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL. Votes: 1

I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a Chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of Harry Potter didn't help much, and I fared poorly. Votes: 1

When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided. Votes: 1

I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I'm amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off. Votes: 1

You lie. Worse, you lie poorly. Votes: 0

Personally, people know themselves very poorly. Votes: 0

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative. Votes: 0

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch. Votes: 0

There's nothing worse than a poorly staged house. Votes: 0

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly. Votes: 0

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly. Votes: 0

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business. Votes: 0

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first. Votes: 0

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego, Votes: 0

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. Votes: 0

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly. Votes: 0

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first. Votes: 0

...if you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed. Votes: 0

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears Votes: 0

Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively. Votes: 0

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. Votes: 0

It's better to do one thing well than ten things poorly. Votes: 0

Poor communication doesn't disconnet souls. It's the disconnected souls who poorly communicate. Votes: 0

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! Votes: 0

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. Votes: 0

The greatest thing you can do for your competition - hire poorly. Votes: 0

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. Votes: 0

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit Votes: 0

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. Votes: 0

Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction. Votes: 0

I`ve never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated. Votes: 0

As rain pours through poorly thatched houses, so does desire penetrate an undeveloped mind. Votes: 0

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. Votes: 0

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate. Votes: 0

To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult. Votes: 0

Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders? Votes: 0

When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself. Votes: 0

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast. Votes: 0

A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish. Votes: 0

What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched. Votes: 0

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. Votes: 0

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication. Votes: 0

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. Votes: 0

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. Votes: 0

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs. Votes: 0

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly. Votes: 0

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. Votes: 0

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament. Votes: 0

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. Votes: 0

I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me. Votes: 0

If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly! Votes: 0

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. Votes: 0

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. Votes: 0

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written Votes: 0

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly. Votes: 0

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up. Votes: 0

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects. Votes: 0

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range. Votes: 0

The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets. Votes: 0

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty ... Votes: 0

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories. Votes: 0

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. Votes: 0

My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, `Let's give him a promotion. Votes: 0

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders. Votes: 0

Give and receive; give big and receive big; give freely and receive freely; give poorly and receive poorly. Votes: 0

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest. Votes: 0

When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen. Votes: 0

It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly. Votes: 0

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately. Votes: 0

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written. Votes: 0

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not. Votes: 0

You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn't work that way. Votes: 0

Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him. Votes: 0

I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game. Votes: 0

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly. Votes: 0

I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done. Votes: 0

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. Votes: 0

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. Votes: 0

If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman. Votes: 0

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed. Votes: 0

The last few weeks we had been playing poorly, but hopefully we can ride this all the way through Halloween. Votes: 0

In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum. Votes: 0

Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat. Votes: 0

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. Votes: 0

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it "“ that's how we learn. Votes: 0

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny. Votes: 0

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly. Votes: 0

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly. Votes: 0

If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual. Votes: 0

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them. Votes: 0

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be. Votes: 0

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed. Votes: 0

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin. Votes: 0

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight. Votes: 0

I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly. Votes: 0

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly," which is true. Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does. Votes: 0

I have a poorly done tribal armband that i got when i was 16, i love showing it to people because it totally sucks Votes: 0

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. Votes: 0

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. Votes: 0

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. Votes: 0

The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered. Votes: 0

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire. Votes: 0

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist. Votes: 0

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly. Votes: 0

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear. Votes: 0

I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water. Votes: 0

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply]. Votes: 0

The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough. Votes: 0

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed. Votes: 0

I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up. Votes: 0

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done. Votes: 0

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization. Votes: 0

It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly. Votes: 0

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page. Votes: 0

Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course. Votes: 0

Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy. Votes: 0

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together. Votes: 0

Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise. Votes: 0

The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house. Votes: 0

A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas. Votes: 0

No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you. Votes: 0

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Votes: 0

The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism! Votes: 0

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations. Votes: 0

You may perform poorly, but your poorly may not be as badly as others may say it is. Your poorly is excellent provided you make amendments on it! Votes: 0

You may perform poorly, but your "poorly" may not be as "badly" as others may say it is. Your "poorly" is "excellent" provided you make amendments on it! Votes: 0

Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads. Votes: 0

Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government. Votes: 0

I know what's best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not. Votes: 0

When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he was saying those are my people. Votes: 0

People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful. Votes: 0

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel. Votes: 0

Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity. Votes: 0

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being. Votes: 0

Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being. Votes: 0

The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket. Votes: 0

Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films. Votes: 0

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters. Votes: 0

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that. Votes: 0

Now, as Global Ambassador for Starlight Children's Foundation, which brightens the lives of poorly children, I visit hospitals and tell stories to the young patients. Sometimes I read. Sometimes I draw. Votes: 0

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable. Votes: 0

The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving. Votes: 0

It is a shame that the Legal Aid Commission and the Aboriginal Legal Service are so poorly funded ....... State and federal governments should be addressing this issueThe Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 30 March 2014 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We won with the military. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people just won. Votes: 0

Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary Votes: 0

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel. Votes: 0

Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives. Votes: 0

Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka. Votes: 0

Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far. Votes: 0

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business. Votes: 0

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made. Votes: 0

Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government. Votes: 0

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed. Votes: 0

A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be. Votes: 0

As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi. Votes: 0

I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realised that my life wasn't so bad. Votes: 0

Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures. Votes: 0

In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either. Votes: 0

The fact that this highly classified information of very, very important people in many cases was so poorly protected demonstrates that cybersecurity is just one more area where the [Barack] Obama administration has failed. Votes: 0

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs. Votes: 0

Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France. Votes: 0

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. Votes: 0

I had written children's books for 14 years before I published 'Wicked.' And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society. Votes: 0

I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in the House and the Senate I think reflected poorly on our political party. Votes: 0

I'm not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I've studied intently for 50 years, so I may know a thing or two. In my opinion, the JFK investigation was poorly handled. Votes: 0

... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them. Votes: 0

The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit. Votes: 0

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good. Votes: 0