Gaps Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.'

  Lara Stone

  Needs, Bills, Dentist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will require inter-disciplinary approaches combined with a good understanding of science, economics and governance aspects. The NUS Bachelor of Environment programme will fill a much needed gap in the current framework. NEA is pleased to be a partner to this programme.

  Andrew Tan

  Understanding, Challenges, Environmental

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• The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, Bridges, Meditation

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• This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Growing, Way, Rich

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• I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama, then candidate Obama, going through Iowa making promises. I think the gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

  Mitt Romney

  Wedding, Iowa, Promise

  "Romney: Obama’s promises as good as Kim Kardashian's wedding vows" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Ambition, Men, Feet

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• I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Years, Class, Understanding

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.135, Vintage

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• I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

  Alex Steffen

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Interview, edition.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

  James Surowiecki

  Cutting, Technology, Practice

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• It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

  Emma Thompson

  Mother, Daughter, Thinking

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• There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.

  Robbie Williams

  Daughter, Daddy, Wife

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• It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Loneliness, Filled In, Waiting

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3815, Delphi Classics

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• Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

  Anthony Storr

  Bridges, Creative, Needs

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• Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I could not express my thoughts as they occurred or soon thereafter, but the language in which I thought and the language in which I spoke, though both English, often seemed divided by a gap that could not be simultaneously, or even retrospectively, bridged.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Drs, Reason Why

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.64, Macmillan

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• In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled.

  Ian Mcewan

  Reading, Writing, Mean

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• We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

  Atul Gawande

  Pain, Medicine, Intuition

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.7, Profile Books

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• We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health may be nurtured. Our schooling must not only teach us how to bridge the Niagara River gorge, or the Golden Gate, but must teach us how to bridge the deep gaps of misunderstanding and hate and discord in the world.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Spiritual, Hate, Home

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.

  Amy Bloom

  Writing, Practice, Differences

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• Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

  Kiran Desai

  Loss, Contentment, Desire

  FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Jan 13, 2013

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