Gaps Quotes - Page 13

• In the gap between thoughts
  nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

  Milarepa

  Shining

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• Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Giving, Want, Way

  "Deepak Chopra on Abundance: How to Cultivate the Feeling that You Have ‘Enough’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2012.

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• Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Space, Creative

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.227, New World Library

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• The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Ignorant, Human Nature, Theory

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• We think there is a knowledge or practice or surrender is needed that will close an imagined or felt gap, and allow some kind of merging with the truth. This is an idea, a thought that will keep you searching forever for some blissful experience that will last - no experience lasts. Who is watching this? Don't try to imagine it. You will only create another concept an imagined object and a lot frustration. Just be that. - and don't expect it to be wow experience...don't expect it to be anything.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Frustration

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• Nowadays, we are confronted by a huge gap between rich and poor. This is not only morally wrong, but practically a mistake. It leads to the rich living in anxiety and the poor living in frustration, which has the potential to lead to more violence. We have to work to reduce this gap. It's truly unfair that some people should have so much while others go hungry.

  Dalai Lama

  Mistake, Frustration, Should Have

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• I’ve watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.

  Nicolas Jaar

  Couple, Thinking, Jurassic Park

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• It's about people coming to an understanding, a realisation that we must bridge the gap, build bridges and make people aware of what's happening. The award gives me the kind of pride and understanding that most people wouldn't think of. It is strengthening the Yolgnu people, but it's also giving strength to Balanda people who otherwise don't have that kind of understanding.

  Mandawuy Yunupingu

  Leadership, Pride, Thinking

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• Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.

  Mike Tyson

  Mirrors, Needs, Looks

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• The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Different, Worship

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• By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

  Garry Kasparov

  Champion, World, Chess

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• Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

  George Kubler

  Real, Dark, Past

  Artscribe. Nr. 7; 13; 17-18, (p. 36), 1977.

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• I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond this room ... There are millions of women out there who ... need more than, Honey, you can do it if you try hard enough.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Powerful, Ambition, Trying

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• Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something better-the price of progress-adds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates industry by creating new wants. It multiplies opportunities for the employment of brain and brawn. And it bridges the gaps between peaks of prosperity and helps take up the slack during times of reaction.

  John Willys

  Happiness, Opportunity, Bridges

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• ... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with many of the sheets lost, others displaced, and with spurious passages interpolated by a later hand. ... Like the scholar with his manuscript, the embryologist has by a process of careful and critical examination to determine where the gaps are present, to detect the later insertions, and to place in order what has been misplaced.

  Francis Maitland Balfour

  Hands, Order, Records

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• That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Mind, Window

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• I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider. I probably work 50 times harder. I think I'm the most underpaid and underappreciated airline boss in Europe.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Average, Europe

  "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says he's underpaid on £1m a year" by Gwyn Topham, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2012.

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• The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Curves, Class, Historical

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• The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Men, Cells

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• How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Use, Want

  Letters and papers from Prison, p. 311, 1996.

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• Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.

  Stephen Colbert

  Girl, Standards Set, Perfect

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• Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.

  e. e. cummings

  Stars, Ocean, Flower

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• If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

  Thandie Newton

  Teeth, Appearance, If I Could

  "What I see in the mirror" by Thandie Newton, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

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• Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

  Dara O Briain

  Atheist, Mean, Fairy Tale

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• I think we will have continuing danger from these markets and that we will have repeats of the financial crisis - [they] may differ in details but there will be significant financial downturns and disasters attributed to this regulatory gap, over and over, until we learn from experience

  Brooksley Born

  Thinking, Details, May

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