Gaps Quotes - Page 25

• It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Bridges, Black, Demand

  Henry Louis Gates (1989). “Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self”, p.176, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.

  Nick Offerman

  Media, Smartphones, Brilliant

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with GQ, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technological, Greater, Security

  Bruce Schneier (2012). “Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive”, p.301, John Wiley & Sons

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• You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.

  Garrett Atkins

  Play, Skills, Next Level

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• When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Education, Religious, Racism

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• The thing I learned was the lack of coordination in research projects in the world and therefore you will have gaps in what we could possibly learn from these research projects.

  Leanne Pooley

  Research, World, Projects

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

  Elliott Abrams

  Analyzing, Used, Pundits

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• Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, Work, Women

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• Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Bridges, Storytelling, Ideology

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• The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Past, Bridges, Decision

  Foreword of "The image of the future" by Fred Polak, (p. V), 1972.

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• Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.

  Jonathan Davis

  Block, Cities, Long

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• In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid.
  As belonging to these imperfections, I consider the obscurity in the fundamental concepts of the geometrical magnitudes and in the manner and method of representing the measuring of these magnitudes, and finally the momentous gap in the theory of parallels, to fill which all efforts of mathematicians have so far been in vain.

  Nikolai Lobachevsky

  Imperfection, Effort, Transition

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• In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

  John Eccles

  Sleep, Self, Order

  "Eccles' Model of the Self Controlling Its Brain: The Irrelevance of Dualist-Interactionism" by Donald E. Watson and Bernard O. Williams, 2003.

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• There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Bridges, Choices, Age

  "Dubai ruler in vast charity gift" By Jon Leyne, news.bbc.co.uk. May 19, 2007.

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• As the owner of the Arison Group, a philanthropic and business enterprise that spans across 40 countries in 5 continents, my ongoing challenge is to bridge the gap between what I envision and its understanding and practical implementation. The Arison Group operates to realize the overall vision of Doing Good.

  Shari Arison

  Country, Bridges, Understanding

  "Women in Business Q&A: Shari Arison, Owner the Arison Group". Interview with Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2014.

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• Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If you were to double everyone's income, or if everyone's income were doubled naturally over the course of time, then you would reduce poverty significantly but you would have also increased the gap.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Two, People

  "Do No Harm: An Interview With Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Harsanyi, thefederalist.com. January 13, 2015.

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• Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.

  Randi Weingarten

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

  Adam Hochschild

  Silence, Trying, Events

  Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

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• The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

  Gerald Celente

  United States, Rich, Poor

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• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. Weve got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Children, Hard Work

  "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 22, 2010.

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• I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we dont always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

  Amy Bloom

  Thinking, Names, Differences

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• For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Work, Infuriating, Situation

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• My solution would be to bridge the skills gap, such as coal to gas training, you have to give people a sense of hope that they have the tools to be able to diversify and stay in the community where they wish to live.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Bridges, Skills, People

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• The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

  Gilbert F. White

  Two, Issues, Special

  Gilbert F. White (1986). “Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White”, p.289, University of Chicago Press

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• Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

  Douglas Coupland

  Perception, Layers, Type

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