quotes about Ineptitude
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Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
-- Jessica SavitchSource : Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley
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For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
-- Joe Klein -
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
-- John Barth -
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They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.
-- MaryJanice Davidson -
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
-- Sidney Blumenthal -
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
-- Tony KushnerSource : "Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: ‘Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration’". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.
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To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.
-- Witold GombrowiczSource : Witold Gombrowicz (1988). “Diary”, p.32, Northwestern University Press
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F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted.
-- Rex Reed