Lacking Quotes - Page 23

• Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Believe, Men, Feminist

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Flower, Garden, Thinking

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• The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing. It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times.

  Kay Arthur

  Hurt, Jesus, Disappointment

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• Deep down in your heart know that all is well. Understand that the Universe is your friend and can never hurt you. It is the substratum of all existence which is love! When you develop a loving consciousness there can be no problems.
  Love takes care of everything. Love is the same as absolute awareness, pure intelligence, or the power of God. When you have enough love inside, there are truly no problems. Problems only arise when you believe you are separate and lacking love.

  Robert Adams

  Hurt, Believe, Heart

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• Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Sacrifice, Personality

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• If you raise your standards but don't really believe you can meet them, you've already sabotaged yourself. You won't even try; you'll be lacking the sense of certainty that allows you to tap the deepest capacity that's within you... Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and impossible and what we can and can not do. They shape every action, every thought and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Believe, Lasting Change

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Aug 20, 2012

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• Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Perfect, Sublime

  Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

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• There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

  Natalie Portman

  Intellectual, Actors, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Power, Humanity, Purpose

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Passion, Justice, Failing

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• I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.

  Berton Braley

  Art, Believe, Hard Work

  Berton Braley (1934). “Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel”

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• Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  America, People, Community

  Samuel P. Huntington (2005). “Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity”, Simon & Schuster

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• While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.

  John Wooden

  Moving, Character, Leader

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• Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Errors, Too Much

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• Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Scripture, Devotion

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• From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Knowledge, Secret, Mind

  "Zen in the Art of Writing". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

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• Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.

  Joseph Hertz

  Harmony, Creator, Superfluous

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1996). “ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית”

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• I usually say I might have a talent or I'm lacking a talent, because everyday, I must tell you, I thank whatever is up there or out there that I'm alive and that I get to do what I'm doing, and I think that sends off a lot of good vibrations in different directions.

  Peter Stormare

  Thinking, Everyday, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

  Vanna Bonta

  Attitude, Air, Choices

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• There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

  Vanna Bonta

  Vision, Atrocities, Poverty

  "State of the Art". Essay by Vanna Bonta, 2000.

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• Wherever there is peace lacking, try to create it and put it there!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Trying

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• He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

  Teresa of Avila

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Brother, Chicago, Towers

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• China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

  Ma Jian

  Writing, Responsibility, Self

  "Home truths from the exile". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2004.

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• Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Average, Zimbabwe

  Interview with Heidi Holland, December 2007.

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