Lacking Quotes - Page 25

Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.

Kim Du-han

Hurt, Drama, Pride

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We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and disease. This concentration is made possible by the common function of nucleic acids as the molecular midwife of all reproductive particles. Indeed it is the nucleic acids which, in spite of their chemical obscurity, are giving to biology a unity which has so far been lacking, a chemical unity.

C. D. Darlington

Years, Giving, Unity

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In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Perfect, Competition, Economic

Joseph A. Schumpeter (2010). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.312, Routledge

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Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.

Ben Bernanke

Thinking, Years, Imagination

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Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

Franz Karl Achard

Historical, Mind, Connections

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Sanctified ignorance is the belief that if we love God and have committed our lives to Him, everything will work out…Sanctified ignorance is no excuse for a life out of alignment, lacking joy, fulfillment, and a clear sense of accomplishment…Look at how God has uniquely gifted you in your skills and abilities, personality traits, and values, dreams and passions. It is in these that we find the authentic path designed for us for a purpose-driven life.

Dan Miller

Dream, Passion, Ignorance

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Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

James Gleick

Player, Skills, Mad

James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

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Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Ron Rash

Fiction, Narrative, I've Learned

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Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

Frederick Lenz

Spiritual, Humility, Buddhism

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It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.

Edward Sapir

Patterns, Different, Would Be

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A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.

Daniel Carter Beard

Real, Skills, Flapjacks

Daniel Carter Beard (2015). “The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft”, p.76, Library of Alexandria

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Mitt Romney was attacking Obama about our failing education system. He has a point. We are graduating millions of people in this country who are so lacking in basic analytical skills, they are considering voting for Mitt Romney.

Bill Maher

Country, Skills, People

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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

Tadashi Yanai

Individuality, Company

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Randy Moss is not a leader. He doesn't deserve to be the captain of the Oakland Raiders. He's the one who said he wanted to be traded. He's not happy. His effort is lacking. That's a disgrace to the uniform. I don't care what uniform you have on.

Boomer Esiason

Oakland, Effort, Leader

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To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

Immanuel Kant

Art, Grace, Degrees

Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.

Freeman Dyson

Science, Imagination, Nomenclature

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You really need to give us much love as you possibly can. Be kind. Be of service to people, not for you to gain anything but just out of pure love. That's what people are lacking, that pure genuine love.

DeLisha Milton-Jones

Genuine Love, People, Giving

"A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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You might think you're connecting with your friends on Facebook but when was the last time you went out with your friends and asked them how they were doing? When was the last time you called them and prayed with them and really had a conversation? Go ahead and do those things with social media. I get it. I really do. But if you're lacking the other things, that's when it's out of balance and you're not really connected.

Jeremy Camp

Thinking, Media, Balance

"A conversation with award-winning recording artist Jeremy Camp". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

George Gaylord Simpson

Facts, Argument, Absence

George Gaylord Simpson (1959). “The Meaning of Evolution”

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In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

Noam Chomsky

Information, Gains, Common

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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

Calvin Coolidge

Men, Important, Attention

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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

Dogen

Perfect, Mind, Body

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Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

Terry Pratchett

Brain, Blame, Finding Someone

Terry Pratchett (2009). “Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)”, p.171, Random House

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