Ineptitude Quotes

• 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 Kushner
  • Artist
  • Accomplishment
  • Ugliness

• Always lobbying for his own emotions, he was the perfect man for a job the administration had tacitly committed to ineptitude.

  

  Algis Budrys
  • Job
  • Emotions
  • Ineptitude

• Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude — even dishonor and betrayal — to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self-effacement, surrender to the “others,” disavowal of any personal dignity or freedom — on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Possibility
  • Personal
  • Surrender

• Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

  

  Bette Greene
  • Life
  • Students
  • Maestros

• It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Proud
  • Genius
  • Ineptitude

• In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.

  

  William Bernard Ziff, Jr.
  • Healthy
  • Tolerance
  • Fishing