Gaps Quotes

• Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

  Christopher Nolan

  Jobs, Taken, Superhero

  "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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• Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than
  anything else.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Silence, Sometimes

  Peter Ackroyd (1996). “First Light”, p.37, Grove Press

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• The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

  Matt Ridley

  Lying, Behaviour, Evolution

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• To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Real, Over You, Be Who You Are

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• The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

  Paul Brunton

  Two, Enlightenment, Chance

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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  If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

  Ayrton Senna

  Racing, Drivers, Ifs

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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• The law of balance is a law of applied consciousness. You can never change it. You will get one thing, you lose the other, you get third thing, you lose the fourth. Always there will be a gap. The 'law of gap' is that there is no gap and how can that gap be filled? Be in gratitude. Make an attitude to be in gratitude, you will find the whole Universe will come to you.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Law

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• In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Men, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Analysis of Mind”, p.54, Bertrand Russell

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• The biggest gap in your life is between what you know and what you do.

  Bob Proctor

  Life, Law Of Attraction, Knows

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 08, 2017

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

  Bono

  Birthday, Dream, Song

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• Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

  Earl Nightingale

  Stars, Bridges, Goal

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.8, Lulu.com

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• The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

  Anna Lindh

  World, Rich, Poor

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• The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Angel, Hands

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• So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

  Jonathan Swift

  Elephants, Savages, Maps

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• Each moss,
  Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank
  Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
  This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost
  Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
  Which Nature's self would rue.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Self, Important, Rue

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• The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  May, Inevitable, Precise

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

  Jon Krakauer

  Love, Past, Numbness

  "Into the Wild". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Needs, Deeds, Crisis

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.57, tredition

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• Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kindness, People, Shooter

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.

  Gilles Deleuze

  People, Silence, Solitude

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• We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

  Margaret Spellings

  Relationship, Talking, Goal

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

  Milo

  Teenager, Men, Bridging The Gap

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• The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

  Donald Knuth

  Sleep, Night, Machines

  "Donald Knuth on The Art of Computer Programming". Innovations Interview, www.informit.com. 1996.

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• During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, Black And White, Achievement

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