Poorly Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

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.

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

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

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

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.

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

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

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.