Quotes About Adequacy

#1. The merit of Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' is its adequacy, and not its consistency ... He should have widened the title of his book into 'An Essay Concerning Experience.

Alfred North Whitehead

#2. The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

Paul Feyerabend

#3. Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

Albert Bandura

#4. We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

Albert Bandura

#6. It is extremely difficult to say with any sense at all of adequacy what To the Lighthouse is all about.

Arnold Kettle

#7. There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

Abraham Maslow

#8. We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#9. One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.

Michael Josephson

#10. Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity ... In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

Susan Cain

#11. Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Neal A. Maxwell

#12. Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

Adam Osborne

#13. The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

Abram L. Sachar

#14. Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

Charles Stanley

#15. He had delusions of adequacy.

Walter Kerr

#16. True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

Ray Stedman

#17. It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

Immanuel Kant

#18. War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.

Walter Millis

#19. Finally, we can accept this stunning, irrevocable truth: Our Lord can lift us from deep despair and cradle us midst any care. We cannot tell him anything about aloneness or nearness! ... He who cannot lie, will atteast to our adequacy with the warm words, Well Done.

Neal A. Maxwell

#20. The only talents he possessed were delusions of adequacy.

Jodi Taylor

#21. The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

William James

#22. He is suffering from delusions of adequacy.

Walter Kerr

#23. My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

Ram Dass

#24. Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

E. Stanley Jones

#25. Apocalypse is the lens through which we view international politics because it is the fons et origo of the concept of history and historiography. Were it not for apocalypse, we would not have the categories of mind with which to ask the questions of meaning and adequacy of interpretation. M

Robert Hamerton-Kelly

#26. The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life-that is the heart of existentialism.

Walter Kaufmann

#27. Mere adequacy is never adequate.

John Lanchester

#28. What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

Winston Churchill

#29. Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

T. S. Eliot

#30. The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.

Alistair Begg

#31. Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

Henry A. Kissinger

#32. He's an undersized pissant with delusions of adequacy.

Lois Greiman

#33. Among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

Noam Chomsky

#34. Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

Peter Drucker

#35. One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.

CrimethInc.

#36. They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

Marge Piercy

#37. We must go down to the very fundamentals of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is as ineffectual as if no attempt at order had ever been made.

I-Ching

#38. If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

Sharon Salzberg