A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Akkineni Nagarjuna
Akkineni Nagarjuna

Besides regular exercising, one should also take care of his or her daily habits such as adequate sleep and drinking lots of water.

Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan

It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is have adequate capital.

Alan Huffman
Alan Huffman

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Alex Ferguson
Alex Ferguson

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

Amit Bhatia
Amit Bhatia

My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.