Gaps Quotes - Page 31

• There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels like you're an ex-patriot in Paris in the 20s. You're like, 'Hey, isn't that a young Ernest Hemingway over there? Yeah, I think it is! Hey, let's go have a look and see what he's writing... It's a Gap application.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Coffee, Writing

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• I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

  Teju Cole

  Empathy, Looks, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Bridges, People

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• I've been doing Nixon pretty much my whole professional life. I was in this comedy group called the Credibility Gap in Los Angeles when he was president. I was doing Nixon on the radio, and when we did live shows I physicalized him - if that's a word - for the first time. And then I did a Nixon sketch on a very short-lived NBC show called Sunday Best.

  Harry Shearer

  Sunday, Nbc, President

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.

  Andy Biersack

  Song, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with John Katic, www.revolvermag.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.

  Brian Evenson

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right.

  Ayrton Senna

  Motivation, Mean, Winning

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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• The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.

  Peter Senge

  Moving, Reality, Creative

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• For those fed up with the lack of mystery at the top of the Premiership, could I refer you to the commanding heights of the Conference. The wide points gap between first and second says we are about to witness the return to the football league of Accrington Stanley. So legendary have they become that everyone across the generations knows them, yet even those of the certain age required (you'd be pushing 60) can scarcely believe they were ever there. What proof do we have that this most Garcia Marquez of football teams was, is and yet may truly be?

  Peter Chapman

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

  Itay Talgam

  Art, Creativity, Form

  Itay Talgam (2015). “The Ignorant Maestro: How Great Leaders Inspire Unpredictable Brilliance”, p.28, Penguin

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• I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.

  Dave Ulrich

  School, Reality, Ivory

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• I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.

  Michael Longley

  Hard Work, Years, Not Good Enough

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and generate new poems. I re-read the new poems in my folder in the hope that this might happen.

  Michael Longley

  Book, Writing, Might

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control.

  Pope Francis

  Exercise, Minorities, Growing

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.

  Anita Roddick

  War, Military, Research

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• When I met you last night baby
  Before you opened up your gap
  I had respect for ya lady
  But now I take it all back

  Nate Dogg

  Baby, Night, Hip Hop

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• Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?

  Francis Chan

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• I like that there are so many different ways of looking at the world and I like all of the particular narratives. In any case we will never all see the same way on these [religious] issues. It's the way liberals and conservatives will never see the same way on individuals whereas it’s different orientations and they go too deep down and when we're dealing with questions that can't be definitively answered by science that's where you're sort of... your orientation swells in to fill up the gaps and so we're never always going to agree.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Religious, Issues, Different

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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• There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Majority, Public Opinion, Vote

  Source: collider.com

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• In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

  Jonathan Haidt

  Life, Art, Real

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.61, Basic Books

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• Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Military, War, Gender Gap

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• If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Anniversary, Strong, Husband

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

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• There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began.

  Daniel Levin Becker

  Mother, Jobs, Serious Things

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• If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized that there's a huge gap in the market where you have people who develop cookware but who don't actually cook.

  Curtis Stone

  Home, Years, People

  Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2012.

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