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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
Despite offering dollar menus and frequent discounts, many of these chains also scored poorly in terms of value.
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.
I wouldn't say I handle attention well. I'd say I stumble over pick-up lines poorly. I'm not good at any of that.
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
I was 14, and I played this club that's no longer there because it was poorly managed: the Texas Tea House in Fort Worth.
One things guys have to remember is consistency... You can't make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout.
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.
Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.
Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
You'll hear people say now, 'Oh, I don't want to see something in 3-D. That's wrong, because what they've seen is 3-D done poorly.
Anyone with a fondness for intricately flavored, carefully measured cocktails and entertaining at home knows how poorly the two mix.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.
Members of Congress and their staffs should be the first to feel the negative consequences of poorly written legislation, not the last.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
I'm known on the Hill for having respect, I think, on all sides of the House of Commons because I don't buy into treating people poorly.
The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.
My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
Across all U.S. intelligence agencies, there is a lack of cultural respect and a poorly tuned attitude toward foreign peoples and cultures.
If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.
Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.
I just see things that are so poorly run, and they could be done a lot better. It might come down to, 'if you want something done right, do it yourself.'
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.
And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.
The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.
The worst present I got was when I was 10. I had specifically wished for a Barbie horse. My dad got me a cheap, poorly made version of it and I cried all evening.
In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.
Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.
I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.
Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually make things worse for them.
There's been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.
I had written children's books for 14 years before I published 'Wicked.' And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
I will make the argument that we are poorly adapted to our current environment. I mean, we did not evolve to sit all day and be exposed to giant amounts of really tasty food.
Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.
As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.
A great story poorly told doesn't do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to hear it, and nobody wants to read it. The craft of it is really more important than the subject matter.
I'm not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I've studied intently for 50 years, so I may know a thing or two. In my opinion, the JFK investigation was poorly handled.
Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.