Lacking Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Individuality, Company

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• 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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• 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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• 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 all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Real, Exaltation, Friendship Love

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Believe, Self Confidence, Hands

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.17, Knopf

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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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• 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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