Logo
Quote by Robert Shea
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. – Robert Shea

Other quotes by Robert Shea

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. – Robert Shea

Category:
strength
Author
Robert Shea
Read Quote

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail. – Robert Shea

Category:
design
Author
Robert Shea
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. – Jack Herer

Category:
Nature

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks

Category:
Nature

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Category:
Nature

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. – Hal Borland

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. – Alice Miller

Category:
Truth

The right really dominates radio, and its amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isnt. They want to shut other people up. They really dont understand the First Amendment. – Roger Ebert

Category:
amazing

The healthy die first. – Italian Proverb

Category:
Health

It is unwise to be too sure of ones own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. – Mahatma Gandhi

Category:
Wisdom