Quotes About Mismatch

One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. (Indeed, Csikszentmihalyi titled his first book on autotelic experiences Beyond Boredom and Anxiety.)

I'd try to stuff myself into one of these scenarios, but it's like wearing a size five sneaker when your foot is a seven--you can get by for a few steps, and then you sit down and pull off the shoe because it just plain hurts too much.

The sad truth is so many people are in LOVE and not together and so many people are together and not in LOVE.

Maybe you really did love me, just not in the way that I loved you.

One of the saddest things that can happen is when one falls in love while the other wants nothing more than friendship ..

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

Design for individuals and the results may be wonderful for the particular people they were designed for, but a mismatch for others. Design for activities and the result will be usable by everyone.

Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus!

Me without you is like Pepsi without cans. Pedophiles without vans. Jersey shore without tans.

I got born in the wrong family.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation

Good intentions, talented players, everyone trying hard. Just bad casting.

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

How could I love him, Jessie. I didn't have a thing he wanted.

Right guy wrong time, right time wrong guy.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

She was so far from his type she might as well have been another species.

Anthony Durnford was a fish out of water, both in terms of experience and, even more importantly, in the closely interlinked fields of judgement and temperament.

Well," he said, "you don't take donkeys to the Kentucky Derby.

T]he ABCP market was built on a fatal flaw: a significant mismatch between the duration of the underlying assets (long-term) and the duration of the paper itself (short-term). While this structure is not unusual -- banks use it all the time -- the crucial difference is that banks have a strong liquidity provider in the event of a problem: the Bank of Canada. The trusts, however, were left in limbo.