Lacking Quotes - page 10

There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention. (Sendhil Mullainathan)
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. View quote
Stefan Sagmeister
Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality. View quote
Tadashi Yanai
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. View quote
William Thomas Green Morton
I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models. View quote
Willie Aames
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful. View quote
Sarah Ruhl
Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood. View quote
Rollo May
If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better. View quote
Juliette Binoche
Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation. View quote
Daniel Suarez
If one of the two is lacking, no reality happens, no radio music plays, the picture screen remains blank. View quote
Albert Hofmann
Well, I would say that, as long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power. As you will understand, it is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. (Friedrich Hayek)
Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. View quote
Thomas Hardy
At the same time, my anxiety had turned into an anxiety quite lacking in anxiousness. And any anxiety that is not especially anxious is, in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Perhaps it is possible for humans to change directions, to look at animals not as competitors or as yet another race to colonize, but as models for achieving something that has eluded humans for their entire evolutionary history. If animals can learn to live with other species in peace, and sometimes even in friendship, is it not possible that observing this extraordinary ability may yet act as a catalyst for us? Is it not possible that harmony among nations need be not a mere fantasy, but something we can learn from observing the achievements of these so-called lesser species? All that is lacking are the will and the humility. View quote
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest. View quote
Alfred Adler
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision. View quote
Gunnar Myrdal
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us. View quote
Cicero
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. View quote
Simone Weil
This is the factory of the new millennium, the new working class, where industrious drones keep track of other people's wealth as it accumulates. Our collars may be white, but our outlooks are gray and our paycheques ar most definitely lacking in green. View quote
Rob Payne
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti. View quote
Ezra Pound
Wanting to obey Christ but lacking his imagination, we reinterpret the mission of the church through the only framework comprehendible to us--the one we've inherited from our consumer culture. (Skye Jethani)
There is a gap between industry and academia. Industry views academia as publication-focused: self-centered, lacking innovation, unaware of IP. Academia views industry as money-focused: driven by the bottom-line, innovating too quickly, product-focused. I would like to see more input from industry and emphasis on understanding 'innovation' to close this gap. View quote
Stephen F Bush
I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them. View quote
Chiang Kai-shek
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. View quote
John Malkovich
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing. View quote
Teresa of Ávila