Adequate Quotes - Page 14

• Adequate early rest is best...."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Bed, Stills

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• A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the process and technology may help or hinder them along the way).

  Alistair Cockburn

  Team, Technology, People

  Alistair Cockburn (2006). “Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game”, p.126, Pearson Education

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• To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Majority, Citizens, Moral

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• Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Spiritual, Curse, Love And Wisdom

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• If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Care, Action, Response

  1972 In Playboy.

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• When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Emotional, Poison

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.98, Penguin

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• The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Community, Chance

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• But even if you thought they were adequate at the time, when you're collecting data in bulk-you've got it. The data lasts until you delete it; the rules only last until you decide to change them, and change them in secret.

  Julian Sanchez

  Data, Secret, Lasts

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• We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

  Bill Shuster

  Religious, Prayer, Years

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• Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Opportunity, Practice, Skills

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.474, Macmillan

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• It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach in piecemeal terms, through blind connections, is or is not adequate to interpret actual thought processes and the role of the past experience as well. Past experience has to be considered thoroughly, but it is ambiguous in itself; so long as it is taken in piecemeal, blind terms it is not the magic key to solve all problems.

  Max Wertheimer

  Taken, Past, Keys

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• This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due to the binary nature of mathematical perception. Either you have no inkling of an idea, or, once you have understood it, the very idea appears so embarrassingly obvious that you feel reluctant to say it aloud.

  Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

  Motivation, Math, Ideas

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• I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Strong, Perfect

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• It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Ideas, Giving, Feelings

  Philip Parker King, Sir Francis Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Charles Darwin (1839). “Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...”, p.29

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• The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Science, Men

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• There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.

  Jonathan Raban

  Mom, Angel, Sides

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

  George Wald

  Thinking, Defense, Nuclear

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• Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Utterance, Fowl, Littles

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.408, e-artnow

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• I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

  Max Lerner

  Simple, Temptation, Principles

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.

  Mencius

  Heart, Power, Men

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

  E. B. White

  Race, Glasses, Car

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• Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Children, Drinking, Years

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• My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Fashion, Years, Firsts

  "God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap". www.nytimes.com. January 4, 2005.

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• I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.

  David Rakoff

  Betrayal, Rocks, Challenges

  David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.20, Anchor

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• Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don't seem adequate anymore. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Invite Jesus to come into your life. Pray this prayer, sign this card, walk down this aisle, and accept Jesus as your personal Savior. . . We have taken the infinitely glorious Son of God, who endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God and who now reigns as the infinitely worthy Lord of all, and we have reduced him to a poor, puny Savior who is just begging for us to accept him. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him?

  David Platt

  Jesus, Prayer, Taken

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