What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want…

— Corey Taylor

I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.

— Mae West

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you…

— Noel Clarke

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie…

— Tracy Morgan

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

— Anonymous

“Mere adequacy is never adequate.”

— John Lanchester

To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group…

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems,…

— Walter Kaufmann

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

— Ram Dass

If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world,…

— Ellen Langer

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Adequacy is sufficient.

— Adam Osborne

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes…

— William James

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I…

— Alan Moore