Gaps Quotes - Page 35

• My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Jobs, Thinking, Best Job

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.151, Penguin

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• Even if not one migrant turns out to vote, this was a historic debt that Mexico owed its compatriots abroad. This represents a new political space for our migrants, an opportunity to bridge the gap between two societies, those living in Mexico and those living abroad.

  Ruben Aguilar

  Opportunity, Bridges, Two

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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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• We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

  Sigmund Freud

  Change, Grief, Loss

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• Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.

  Craig Kielburger

  Educational, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

  Andre Breton

  Heart, Poetry, Understanding

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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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• Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.

  Tom Stoppard

  Death, Blow, Endless Time

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.124, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

  Maggie Q

  People, Sometimes, Circumstances

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• The gap between current conditions and your future vision should be your focus

  Tony Jeary

  Focus, Vision, Your Future

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.

  Marco Rubio

  Opportunity, Land, America

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

  Margaret Atwood

  Space, White, People

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 20, 2015

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• It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

  Sigmund Freud

  Gowns, Philosopher, Poet

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Country, Countries Of The World, Colonialism

  Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism”, Nelson

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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