Deficits Quotes

“If you want more from life — start by counting your blessings instead of counting your losses, deficits and wants.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“I began thinking about what would happen if we all just acknowledged our brokenness, if we owned up to our weaknesses, our deficits, our biases, our fears. Maybe if we did, we wouldn’t want to kill the broken among us who have killed others. Maybe we would look harder for solutions to caring for the disabled, the abused, the neglected, and the traumatized. I had a notion that if we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“As impossibly paradoxical as is seems, is it possible that our limp is the very thing that allows us to run? And without a limp, could we in reality run?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“For the canny and the farsighted, vast deficits also create vast opportunities.”
― Simon Dunstan, Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler

“I rigorously lament all of the many things that I don’t have. But in this self-imposed and rather lively pity-party to which I’ve invited myself, what I forget are the resources I do have that equip me to obtain what I don’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I will most certainly focus on one of two things; the nagging deficits of my handicap, or the masterful honing brought about by my handicap. And my choice of focus will determine if my handicap will remain a handicap.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Deficits are defeated by the strength that we gain in fighting them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The deficits in our life only survive if we grant them permission to be the lie that allows them to be deficits.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough