Gaps Quotes - Page 16

• What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

  Susan Sontag

  Opening Up, Healthy, Ordinary

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• Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Expression, Who We Are

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• Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.

  Lawrence Wright

  Art, Opportunity, Men

  Lawrence Wright (2006). “The Looming Tower”, p.107, Vintage

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• Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

  John Berger

  Space, Giving, Normal

  John Berger (2009). “The Shape of a Pocket”, p.176, Vintage

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• Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  World, Remember, Should

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• Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

  Amy Carmichael

  Soldier, Duty, Willing

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• Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

  Taryn Simon

  Motivation, Inspiration, Archives

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• Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

  Larry Elder

  Lying, School, Issues

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin

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• We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, People, Village

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• I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

  Anthony Browne

  Appreciation, Children, Book

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• I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do what I was elected to do, and that is represent the interests of my constituents, the working people of Hawaii. I feel that we are facing some of the most difficult issues in recent history with regard to food security, a widening income gap, and the rapidly increasing rise of the cost of living in our State. I know that the office of Lieutenant Governor can do more to address these issues.

  Clayton Hee

  Cost Of Living, Issues, People

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• Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.

  George Rodrigue

  Lying, Sadness, Space

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• No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for the light to shine through

  Ben Greenhalgh

  Strong, Rain, Wind

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• Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

  Sharon Salzberg

  Usual, Events, Mental Health

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• For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

  Sara Sheridan

  Novelists, Stories, Intriguing

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• In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

  Sarah Silverman

  Meaningful, Crazy, Trying

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• Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.

  Deepak Chopra

  Desire, Details, Care

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• Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Bars

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• In the gap between thoughts
  nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

  Milarepa

  Shining

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• The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Military, Political Will, Assets

  "Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns of 'two-tier' force" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

  Steven Rattner

  Eye, Pay Gap, Growing

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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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• Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also means finding the gaps in our ideas about others, releasing images that we hold about a manager, a coworker, a friend, or a partner.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Mean, Ideas, Space

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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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