Adequacy Quote by John Lanchester Download Open image ““Mere adequacy is never adequate.”” — John Lanchester ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adequacy
“The inability to admit imperfection is the biggest kind of weakness.” — T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“No one can consistently get everything wrong. Such perfection does not exist.” — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.” — Sachin Kumar Puli Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, for the sake of the larger good, one has to do things that may not appear right at the time. Perhaps, a laudable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
“If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Maria Tallchief Copy Share Image
“No one ever obliges us to know, Adso. We must, that is all, even if we comprehend imperfectly.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Bastiat (1801–1850) was a strikingly clear-minded early advocate of what came to be known as liberal economics, whose central idea is that the state… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“What was going on here was something Smitty had seen before: a young person’s first real farewell to the world of school and college,… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
