Lack Quotes - page 48

There were times when I'd bench players for their lack of effort. We worked very hard on fundamentals, which was the Dodger way. We needed to be more aggressive. (Dick Williams)
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor. View quote
Diego Della Valle
Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine. View quote
Dikembe Mutombo
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight. View quote
Duane Michals
It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing. View quote
Daniel Dae Kim
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. View quote
E. H. Harriman
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. View quote
E. V. Lucas
Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline. View quote
Eli Broad
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened. View quote
Ellen McLaughlin
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. View quote
Eric Butterworth
Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality. (Erich von Stroheim)
As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.' View quote
Ezekiel Emanuel
When I went into GM there was a lack of morale. The company had gone bankrupt and the people who worked there were embarrassed. Underneath all of, though, there was a will to show what they were capable of, but nobody knew exactly what to do. View quote
Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition. View quote
Fred Upton
The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment. View quote
Frederick W. Smith
I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do. View quote
Felicia Day
I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about. View quote
Felicia Day
Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was too tough . . . I lack patience. I probably got on guys a little too hard, with the wrong tone of voice. View quote
Frank Robinson
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. View quote
George Packer
Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S. (George Papandreou)
Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework. View quote
George Papandreou
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work. View quote
Gil Kane
I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email. View quote
Garrett Hedlund
Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless. View quote
Gary Bauer