Top 100 Quotes About Gaps
#1. When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and generate new poems. I re-read the new poems in my folder in the hope that this might happen.
Michael Longley
#2. The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.
William H. Whyte
#3. The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference ...
Audre Lorde
#4. Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.
Taryn Simon
#5. Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps
Pearl Zhu
#6. Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century.
Jay Parini
#7. If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#8. In the gap between thoughts
nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.
Milarepa
#9. Insight is a perception beyond the thought, a multi-dimensional cognizance, and it's the experience to explore oneself, surrounds and beyond.
Pearl Zhu
#10. At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#11. The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did.
Laird Barron
#12. People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
Hippocrates
#13. Time means nothing.Time is just the way we measure the gaps between not knowing something and knowing it or not doing something and doing it.
Richard Bach
#14. The more gaps a leader can bridge, the more significant influence she or he can make.
Pearl Zhu
#15. The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.
Raymond Williams
#16. All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.
Cecelia Ahern
#17. You don't have to have a thigh gap to be beautiful
Demi Lovato
#18. The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
Jorge Luis Borges
#19. The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower
Michael Longley
#20. Like all true stories, it was a mix of legends and facts, of myths imagined and deeds done, of the heart of darkness and the crown of light, of experiences borne and gaps filled, of things seen and visions that could only be authenticated by the mind's eye.
Ken Liu
#21. I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.
Rosamund Lupton
#22. My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.
Jakaya Kikwete
#23. Sometimes, PTSD sufferers will shut out memories of painful periods in their lives and experience amnesia. Thus, a traumatized individual might not remember when his spouse died in a car accident. Another person who was abused might have gaps in her memory of childhood.
Glenn Schiraldi
#24. Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.'
Timothy Noah
#25. I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.
J.M. Coetzee
#26. He slept under the sky, holding her hand, filling the gaps between her fingers and losing himself inside the soul in the course of counting the stars, she was hiding inside her eyes.
Akshay Vasu
#27. His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.
Ian Caldwell
#28. The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories ... They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.
George Gilder
#29. CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.
John Harrison
#30. In many parts of India, chit funds address gaps left by the traditional banking sector.
R. Vaidyanathan
#31. Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.
Murray Walker
#32. The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
Barry Commoner
#33. All family histories, personal histories,are as sketchy and unreliable as histories of the Phoenicians, it seems to me. We should note everything down, fill in the wide gaps if we can. Which is why I am writing this my darlings.
William Boyd
#34. Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.
Peter Hook
#35. How do those people who don't read books plug the gaps in their day? The journeys, the break-times, the evenings when the telly is crap, the time in bed before sleep arrives?
Robert Craig
#36. I still believe in God; the teachings of Jesus even, but the rest of Christianity ... its Bible, its churches, its dogma
only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of being HUMAN, and it ignores all these GAPS that need to be filled in by the individual.
Craig Thompson
#37. It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema.
Anurag Kashyap
#38. 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
#39. I keep wondering if it'll ever hurt less. This...this hole in our lives." "Oh, I imagine it'll hurt less eventually. I think there will always be a hole, though. But lace is one of the most beautiful fabrics, you know. All those holes and gaps, but it's still complete somehow- still lovely.
Emery Lord
#40. The more both sides follow the example of those intrepid early diplomats to bridge the gaps in understanding and interests, the better chance we will have of making progress.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#41. Yael was a cobweb version, composed of gaps and strings and fragile nothings.
Ryan Graudin
#42. Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps.
Monica Lewinsky
#43. Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.
Guy Consolmagno
#44. Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.
Adam Shankman
#45. Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded.
Deepak Chopra
#46. In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#47. This is how we piece together our past. We do it like a jigsaw puzzle, where there are missing pieces. But so long as we have enough of the pieces, we can know what belongs in the gaps.
Nathan Filer
#48. HR is My Area of Interest Where I Can Utilize My Professional Skills Throughout Fill The Gaps Between Organizational Goals With Employees Goals.
Avinash Advani
#49. The details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced.
Lauren Oliver
#51. My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.
Walt Whitman
#52. Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.
Pearl Zhu
#53. happiness is like those stars. They don't cover all the darkness; there are gaps between. We make mistakes in life and we misunderstand, and yet there remain gaps through which truth shines.
Rabindranath Tagore
#54. The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right ...
Paula Rego
#55. Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.
Bruce Lee
#56. We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. - Irving Townshend, Separate Lives
Michael Korda
#57. Cute kids, really cute clothes. I'd just created a tagline for Wind Gaps' li'l shoppers.
Gillian Flynn
#58. Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.
Patrick Caddell
#59. The gaps are part of the set, too," she'd said. "You can't replace them. I know how each piece was broken or lost. I broke a plate myself when I was nine. Now I'm an immortal part of the pattern. I'll take my gaps, thank you.
Josiah Bancroft
#60. Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy
Nicolas Sarkozy
#63. I'm always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in the gaps, but never getting all the details. It's like trying to do a jigsaw when I don't even know what the picture is, and I'm missing one of the vital middle pieces.
Chrissie Perry
#64. If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.
Hillary Clinton
#65. Hold the thoughts, know the thoughts and you realize the thoughts have slowed showing breaks and gaps, be the witness to them and you shall be meditating
Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
#66. If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.
William J. Clinton
#67. The way they knew that Bone Gap had gaps just wide enough for people to slip through, or slip away, leaving only their stories behind.
Laura Ruby
#68. I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'
Susan Minot
#69. Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world.
Sam Harris
#70. Gaps, by default in the mind of the creationist, are filled by God.
Richard Dawkins
#71. Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.
Pearl Zhu
#72. It was the sort of cold that followed you inside, that searched your clothes for gaps and penetrated you slowly, until it crept into your heart and chilled your blood.
David R. Gillham
#73. silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past.
Anthony Doerr
#75. The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.
Paulo Coelho
#76. The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
Bill Gates
#77. I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.
Edith Wharton
#78. The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears ... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years ...
Bayard Taylor
#79. So long as there's a gap in your life, fill it with love.
Amado Nervo
#80. The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.
Frank Hadden
#81. This wasn't music to dance to - it was music to worship, music to fill in the gaps of my soul, to bring me to a place where there was no pain.
Sarah J. Maas
#82. At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#83. We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.
Mary Brave Bird
#84. If Jesus is the heart of the church, people are the lifeblood. There is a reason He created community and told us to practice grace and love and camaraderie and presence. People soften the edges and fill in the gaps. Friends make up some of the best parts of the whole story.
Jen Hatmaker
#86. No separation of distance; no separation of time; no separation of any kind need lessen compassion.
Zechariah Barrett
#87. So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
Jonathan Swift
#88. Knowledge pertains to knowing and to intelligence while wisdom has to do with the soundness of judgment.
Pearl Zhu
#89. We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#90. 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
#91. The clouds hung like dark, blowing tapestries in the gaps of the hills.
Louis L'Amour
#92. There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.
Janette Turner Hospital
#93. The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
George Carlin
#94. Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.
Mitch Kapor
#96. How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.
Hyrum W. Smith
#97. Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl.
Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.
Steven James
#99. In the area of work and money, we have one of the most intense gaps between fear-based and love-based thought. It's not that a miracle mindset applies to work and money any more than it applies to anything else; rather, it applies there no less than anywhere else.
Marianne Williamson
#100. So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had
gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms, missing
incidents as if locusts had consumed a section of tapestry, as if
plaster loosened by the bombing had fallen away from a mural at night.
Michael Ondaatje
