Gaps Quotes - Page 25

• When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Real, Breaking Down, Ideals

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.20, Random House

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• Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm shrinking smaller and smaller and I can't stp it. There's just os much wrong that I can't imagine the shame in admitting even the tiniest part of it. When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up.

  Sarah Dessen

  New Year, Fall, Years

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2000.

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• Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.

  Kay Ryan

  Ocean, Water, Elements

  Kay Ryan (2010). “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”, p.171, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

  John Fowles

  Memories, Intelligent, Imagination

  JOHN FOWLES “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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• What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Dream, Country

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one. Cut. Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quickly and directly as possible. Cut decisively, resolutely. Cut into the enemy’s strength. Flow through the gaps in his guard. Cut him. Cut him down utterly. Don’t allow him a breath. Crush him. Cut him without mercy to the depths of his spirit." -Richard Rahl

  Terry Goodkind

  Crush, Commitment, Fighting

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• It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in relics -- guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It's not just about the music. It's about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a particular song can bridge that gap, can make you feel the abrupt thrill of absolute faith.

  Steve Almond

  Crush, Song, Religious

  Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.71, Random House

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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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• 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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• In the gap between thoughts
  nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

  Milarepa

  Shining

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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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• 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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• The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, World, Rich

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• Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.

  William Thurston

  Math, Thinking, Errors

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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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• 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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• The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

  Clay Shirky

  Real, Doing Nothing

  Clay Shirky (2010). “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators”, p.17, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's not a struggle, but sometimes when you're gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends.

  Willow Shields

  Struggle, Two, Missing

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

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