Quotes About Adequacy

Too little of it is no better than too much

Mediocrist (n.) A person of mediocre talents. Nobody wants to be mediocre, but someone has to be. In fact, by definition, most people are. Microphily

I feel like I'm good enough to defend anybody.

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

Finding something may be satisfactory, but not finding everything is suboptimal. (Dr. Pat Croskerry)

Less is only more where more is no good.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.

Her eyes appeared to regard him out of many thousand years: all emotion she might have felt, all words she might have uttered, would have seemed inadequate beside the adequacy of her silence, ineloquent against the eloquence of her beauty

You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

He translates one book of the Iliad, two of the Odyssey, plus an admirable slice of Plato's Republic. Five lines on an average day, ten on a good one, scribbled onto yellow legal pads in his crimped pencil-writing and stuffed into boxes beneath the dining table. Sometimes he believes his translations are adequate. Usually he decides they're terrible. He shows them to no one.

Less is more only when more is too much.

There is no incompleteness in the kingdom of God on God's side of the equation. Christ work is finished and it is perfect. Christ demonstrates repeatedly that the kingdom present in this age is completely adequate to heal all who come to Him in child-like faith.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

And everyone knows that it's better to have an expert show you -- and not just tell you -- how to play tennis or golf or a musical instrument. We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instructions.

When what you have is more than enough, you're on the edge of impeccability.

Aquel que quiere obrar correctamente, debe servirse de la herramienta apropiada.

These unwanted performance pressures are generated when new therapists frame what they don't know or can't do yet as a "deficit" or as evidence of their inadequacy, rather than more realistically framing it as merely their own inexperience.

Las capacidades exigen ser usadas y tan solo cesan en su exigencia cuando son usadas adecuadamente. Es decir, las capacidades son también necesidades. (El hombre autorrealizado, pág. 303)