Mismatch Quotes

• Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

  Tadao Ando

  Two, Use, Spirit

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• The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Giving Up, Coaching

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• Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Nba, Beats

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• One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Fall, Frustration, Essence

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• When you're working with vibes the music comes right in. The blend is perfect. So to me it was never a mismatch. It was actually pretty complementary.

  Linda Perhacs

  Perfect, Vibes, Complementary

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed with Transport Minister Alasdair Darling's reported hatred of cars. They too wanted drivers off the roads and on to public transport. Go to it, Mr Darling, they cried in unison, get rid of all those cars. Except, of course, their own. Other people's cars are traffic. My car is the outward essence of my being. It is my hat, stick and cane. It embodies my freedom as a citizen and my right as a democrat. My car is my soul in flight.

  Simon Jenkins

  Weekend, Essence, America

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• Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

  James A. Baldwin

  Long, People, Assets

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• ...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic that way: imperfectly monogamous.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love You, Despair, Pheromones

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.166, Anchor

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• The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.

  Donella Meadows

  Simple, World, Problem

  "Whole Earth Models and Systems". "The CoEvolution Quarterly", p. 98 - 108, Summer 1982.

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• What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.

  Steven Pinker

  Purpose, May, Today

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.295, Penguin

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• There shouldn't be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people - deaths in the ring occur because they don't keep up with the records well enough. They are putting mismatches together. The people who are licensed to stop a fight, the referee and the corner, don't do it for fear that the audience is going to object to them stopping a fight.

  Ferdie Pacheco

  Fighting, People, Together

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.

  Naomi Klein

  Food, Fall, Loss

  "Climate change is the fight of our lives - yet we can hardly bear to look at it" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2014.

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• God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.

  Arthur Miller

  Jobs, Years, Design

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• There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm never going to be like one of those people on the front of magazines.' It always seemed really strange to me that the projection of how people are in advertisements looked nothing like the people who were actually buying them. You know what I mean? I never understood that mismatch, and now I really start to see that the people you see in the media are a lot more like people actually are.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mean, Media, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which they can deliver through the machinery of government.

  Tom Bentley

  Communication, Government, Media

  Tom Bentley (2001). “It's Democracy, Stupid: An Agenda for Self-government”, p.6, Demos

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• We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

  George Soros

  Political, Democracy, Triumph

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.11, PublicAffairs

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• It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.

  Anita Roddick

  War, Military, Research

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.

  Anders Hejlsberg

  Couple, Thinking, Past

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• At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch.

  Ben Thompson

  Venture Capitalists, Levels, Information

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• Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Kings, Luxury, Long

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