Zach Ertz

If I could get better on the field, I could get better in my interviews. I took that approach: if there's something I'm deficient in, whether it be in relationships, whether it be talking to people, just that self-reflection to seek people out who can help me.

American Athlete

Washington Irving

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

American Writer

Pamela Meyer

While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.

American Author

Joel Fuhrman

The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

American Scientist

Ryuichi Sakamoto

I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.

Japanese Composer

Hilary Mantel

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

English Writer

Freddie Wong

VR has a whole range of things it's very good at, and there's a lot of things that it's going to be deficient at.

American Director

Martin Heidegger

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

German Philosopher

Salman Rushdie

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Indian Novelist

George C. Wolfe

American Playwright

Used when nutrition or health is lacking. It suggests a need for improvement to achieve well-being.

Health Context

Often found in scientific or technical reports about shortages in substances or elements.

Scientific Assessment

Carries a sense of urgency implying that the deficiency should be rectified soon.

Implicit Urgency

Reflects on a person's abilities, often in a professional or educational context.

Personal Abilities

Expresses a negative judgment about the quality of work or product.

Quality Judgment

Being deficient doesn't necessarily mean totally lacking, but not having enough.

Not Always Complete

 into sociopolitical symbols. Of course, we didn't listen to them, and instead, we championed the tender gestures of love and headlong flashes of youth. The agenda behind our cinematic immersion was only empathy, an emotion that's largely deficient from films that come from our region of the world.

Bassam Tariq: The beauty...

 a little more respectful of the species. I also searched on this story for the elusive great hammerhead, an animal that really hadn't been photographed much until maybe about seven or 10 years ago. It's a very solitary creature. But this is an animal that's considered data deficient by science

Brian Skerry reveals...

 So, every brain region is wired to every other region, and these are trimmed down to create the characteristic modular architecture of the adult brain. So, if there's a gene causing this trimming and if that gene mutates, then you get deficient trimming between adjacent brain areas.

3 clues to understanding...

 The amygdala is an almond-shaped organ deep within each of the hemispheres of the brain. It is thought to be key to the experience of empathy. Normally, the more empathic a person is, the larger and more active their amygdala is. Our population of inmates had a deficient amygdala,

The neuroscience of...

 this case to a Stanford quality course and would never be able to afford it or Jenny who was a single mother of two and wants to hone her skills so that she can go back and complete her master's degree or Ryan who can't go to school because his immune deficient daughter can't be

What we're learning from...

 those who don't wonder about the contingency of their existence, of the contingency of the world's existence, are mentally deficient. That's a little harsh, but still. So this has been called the most sublime and awesome mystery, the deepest and most far-reaching question

Why does the universe...

 leaving some messes untied heed and some questions unanswered so much beauty can come from chaos but it's not the obvious kind it's subtle and dazzling and yes uncontrollable it was mayhem that healed me but I was i chaos deficient well as

Life is messy. Embrace...

 so academically deficient, that I cried. I wondered, "How am I going to take this group, in nine months, from where they are to where they need to be? And it was difficult, it was awfully hard. How do I raise the self-esteem of a child

Rita Pierson: Every kid...

 two decades ago we knew almost nothing about the world's largest ray one of the biggest fish in our ocean less than ten years ago the conservation status of this animal was still listed as data deficient highlighting the fact that we

Andrea Marshall: Queen...

 But one of the things that we never discuss or we rarely discuss is the value and importance of human connection. Relationships. I have had classes that were so low, so academically deficient, that I cried.

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