Insufficient Quotes

• Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.

  Chris Argyris

  Individual, Organizational, Conditions

  Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön (1978). “Organizational learning: a theory of action perspective”, Addison-Wesley

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  If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Motivational, Trust

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 28, 2015

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• Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

  Henry Ford

  Knows

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• To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

  Isaac Asimov

  Beautiful, Succeed, Planning

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Yelling, Crossfit, Poor

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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Men, Boredom

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• The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insufficient and even slightly absurd, and instilled in us a longing for transcendent love so deep that-if once yielded to-it will never grant us rest anywhere but in Christ.

  David Bentley Hart

  Lying, Humility, Order

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• To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future; the freedom to get beyond ourselves...in states of mind that allow us to rise above our immediate surroundings and see the beauty and value of the world we live in.

  Oliver Sacks

  Understanding, Mind, Needs

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• Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.

  Greg Plitt

  Pain, Sacrifice, Messages

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• The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Simple, Space

  Isaac Asimov (2008). “The Stars, Like Dust”, p.28, Tor Books

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• I have found God, but he is insufficient.

  Henry Miller

  God, Religious, Found

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Stress, Sleep, Decision

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Thinking, Compassion

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• With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Struggle, Sound

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Psychology Press

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• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Faith, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

  Horace

  Wealth, Fortune, Nameless

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• Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.

  Helen Clark

  Practice, Effort, Missing

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• without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Blow, Wind

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Winning, Long

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• I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself.
  But  leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing
  in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient
  condition for making it come true.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Cheerleading, Believe, Ambition

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• I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Believe, Men, Order

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

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• I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I feel quite strongly that we need a new moral lodestone if we can't rely on what is inside our own selves. Which I think, actually, is pretty reliable.

  Emma Thompson

  Thinking, Self, Needs

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• There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Progress, Events

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Opportunity, Vaults

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• Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

  Blaise Pascal

  Book, Men, Giving

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.96

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