Top 46 Gap Generation Quotes
#1. In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.
Miles Anthony Smith
#2. Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.
Miles Anthony Smith
#3. There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.
Miles Anthony Smith
#4. But what if we fail' they ask, whispering the dreaded word across the Generation Gap to their parents. 'Don't' they whisper back. What they should say is 'Don't be afraid to fail. Failure isn't fatal
William Zinsser
#5. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
George Eliot
#7. There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#8. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew
#9. Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?
Sara Sheridan
#10. Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#12. Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now there was nothing at all to say.
Carson McCullers
#13. I wanted to ask which war
the Boer or the Crimean? It was amazing how old people could talk about The War, as though that meant something.
John Christopher
#14. What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.
Miles Anthony Smith
#15. I think the gap between Israelis and Palestinians is too deep to be bridged in our generation. Politically, we are in favor of a regional solution. A part of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) should be annexed by Israel, and the other parts should be incorporated in a confederation with Jordan.
Ayelet Shaked
#16. It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties and thirties there is a kind of gap.
Garth Greenwell
#18. I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open Door")
Mrs. Oliphant
#19. We're looking at a huge gap between what an entire generation thinks is going to happen during its retirement years and the funds that are there - or, more accurately, are not there - to make good on all those promises.
John C. Goodman
#20. Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.
Heidi W. Durrow
#21. Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.
Miles Anthony Smith
#22. John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.
George Eliot
#23. Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.
Miles Anthony Smith
#24. I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.
Julie Harris
#25. I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.
Alex Steffen
#27. Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?
Miles Anthony Smith
#28. There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
Eleanor Catton
#29. ... Being the worst confirmation of the worst kind of generation gap stereotype and parental disgust for their decadent, wastoid kids
David Foster Wallace
#30. The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all. There's a massive gap. I don't know why, but we were really like orphans. Those people competed against us, they hated us and fought for things, and yet they had no interest in our work.
Liam Gillick
#31. I believe that as we face unparalleled prosperity in some quarters and deep impoverishment in others, it is the willingness of the next generation to bridge the gap between the two that will return us to our sense of purpose and focus.
Lynn Schusterman
#32. We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.
Mary Brave Bird
#33. I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
Vanessa Kerry
#34. A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.
June Masters Bacher
#35. Old people. They don't know shit. This generation is moving faster.
Karina Halle
#36. In searching for ways to bridge the generation gap, there is no doubt that we, as parents, will have to practice what we preach, by striving more to bring our conduct into line with our code of beliefs.
Billy Graham
#37. I am suggesting that we don't put the "income" cart before the "contentment" horse.
Miles Anthony Smith
#38. The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns of their own lives.
Susan Richards Shreve
#39. The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.
Miles Anthony Smith
#40. When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.
Miles Anthony Smith
#41. This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.
Frank Church
#44. Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.
Miles Anthony Smith
#45. There is not that much of a generation gap these days.
Chris Frantz
#46. I made physical objects because I know how to do something on the computer. That struck a chord with me: Most women of my generation have grown up with technology but lack the handmade creative skills of former generations. This is a big opportunity to fill that gap.
Brit Morin
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