Close The Gap Quotes

#1. China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

Berti Vogts

#2. Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

Beth Moore

#3. Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce; the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.

Twyla Tharp

#4. It's more mental in the NFL than it was in high school. In high school you just line up and close the gap. In the NFL you have to do the right things so the team can win.

Raylee Johnson

#5. We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Major Owens

#6. Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

Andrew Forrest

#7. The drive to close the gap between near-perfect and perfect is the difference between great and unstoppable.

Tim S. Grover

#8. The concept of downsizing so that others might upgrade is biblical, beautiful ... and nearly unheard of. We either close the gap or don't take the words of the Bible literally.

Francis Chan

#9. If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

David Hood

#10. What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

Laura Busche

#11. You can. With God's help you can close the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be.

Max Lucado

#12. The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

Mike Rowe

#13. The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Barry Lopez

#14. The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

Dalai Lama XIV

#15. When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future.

Lionel Suggs

#16. A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness and respect for every human being.

Pope Francis

#17. Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.

Khaled Hosseini

#18. The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Vince Lombardi

#19. The telltale clenching of hands into fists is all the invitation I need as I close the gap to hound his personal space.
Suck on my aura you spineless shit!

Poppet

#20. Setting the guitar down, I stood and took a step forward to close the gap she'd created. "You need to get used to it. I don't want to be just someone to you. I want to be the only one. And I promise you, Maggie Malone, if you let me, I'll earn all of the pieces of you before I take a single one.

Pamela Sparkman

#21. Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.

Deepak Chopra

#22. There's always a gap between "what I have now" and "what I would like." And that gap is all of your excuses. All it takes to close the gap is to be creative and work your way through the excuses. I repeat: this is all it takes.

James Altucher

#23. Experience and miracle are two agents crafted with different names and meanings, yet express the exact same nature. It takes a miracle to gap experience. It takes experience to close the wall of a miracle. In the end, the only real difference ... is skill.

Lionel Suggs

#24. One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

Edward Tenner

#25. Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail ... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

Richard J. Codey

#26. Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

Jerry Kramer

#27. I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

Margaret Spellings

#28. America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.

Marco Rubio

#29. We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.

Wendy Kopp

#30. There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye.

Russell T. Davies

#31. To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.

Fred D'Aguiar

#32. I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.

Aleksandar Hemon

#33. Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

Sheryl Sandberg

#34. You want to close the income inequality gap in part? Give us better educated kids out of high school. Give us kids that can challenge and succeed in the challenge with technology. You give us those kinds of kids, and watch the needle move.

Kenneth Langone

#35. It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

Sarah Brightman

#36. I've always liked doubles. When you scald the ball on a line to the gap, I think that's about as close to a perfect swing as you can get.

Lance Berkman

#37. Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.

Satya Nadella

#38. Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

Major Owens

#39. Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women - in access to education, in health, even in economic participation - the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.

Melanne Verveer

#40. They say time heals all wounds. But does it close the gaps too? Maybe it can. Maybe in a year it turns an eight-year time gap into dust. Maybe it turns a girl who didn't know what she wanted into someone who became certain. Maybe it turns twenty-one stolen kisses into endless given ones.

Lauren Blakely

#41. Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

Ben Stein

#42. Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Oprah Winfrey