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• Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Lying, Expectations, Unhappy

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Struggle, Commitment

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• The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Struggle, Priorities, Important

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (2015). “First Things First”, p.20, Mango Media Inc.

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• Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a heart won't settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift.

  Craig Silvey

  Sorry, Revenge, Heart

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• The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

  Mike Rowe

  Country, Reflection, Skills

  Mike Rowe's Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, www.discovery.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why Allāh is with the broken hearted.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Heart, Light, Broken

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• I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.

  Abd-ru-shin

  Men, Soul, Wish

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• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

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• When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

  John Sweeney

  Fall, Economic Inequality, Unions

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• Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal?
  Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

  Arsene Wenger

  Titles, Lasts, Tottenham

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• The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.

  Bo Lozoff

  Self, Hatred, Sincere

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.25, Penguin

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• The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

  John W. Gardner

  Creative, Individual, Gifted

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• It’s amazing what a healing effect horses can have on kids, particularly troubled kids, that might bridge the gap that a well-intended human just can’t do.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Healing, Kids

  "The Real 'Horse Whisperer'". Interview with Andrew Howley, voices.nationalgeographic.org. June 16, 2011.

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• Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

  Bruce Lee

  Anxiety, Ongoing, Flow

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.101, Tuttle Publishing

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• You don't have to have a thigh gap to be beautiful. It is possible to love your body the way it is.

  Demi Lovato

  Beautiful, Thighs

  "Demi Lovato: 'I don't have a thigh gap and I'm still beautiful'" by Gina Vivinetto, www.today.com. April 14, 2017.

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• There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Ignorance, Strive, Natural

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• The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.

  Arnold Kling

  Clever, Thinking, Government

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• Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

  Patrick Caddell

  Men, Gender Gap, Problem

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• We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Boards, Answers

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.

  Betty White

  Writing, Play, Laughing

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• I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Thinking, Needs, Attention

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the gap. There's something wrong when a handful of people have more than they'll ever need while millions of people have less than they always need.

  Joseph Lowery

  Commitment, People, Needs

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• Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

  William Julius Wilson

  Class, Economic, Middle

  "William Julius Wilson: Ending Poverty Is Possible". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2012.

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• Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.

  Don Yaeger

  Accomplishment, Legends, Arena

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• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  School, Kids, Technology

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