Quotes About Adequacy

The easiest way to do anything is properly.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Too much falsely inflates. Too little underprepares.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Not worth his salt.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

For an inwardly sound and self-confident person will be more adequate to his social tasks than one who is not on good terms with his unconscious.

Healthy self-esteem is not ashamed to say, when the occasion warrants it, "I was wrong." Denial and defensiveness are characteristics of insecurity, guilt, feelings of inadequacy, and shame.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

enough, we had enough time, any of this was enough?

And compliance produces adequacy—not greatness. Only credibility earns commitment.

They're not any smarter than they have to be and they're just as smart as they need to be.

As Osborne famously declared, Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous. Jobs found that approach to be morally appalling, and he spent days making fun of Osborne. This guy just doesn't get it, Jobs repeatedly railed as he wandered the Apple corridors. He's not making art, he's making shit.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Good is good and enough is enough, but good enough is not…

Între Socrate È™i Hristos exist?, în punctul decisiv, numai contradicÈ›ie, pentru c? Socrate nu poate decât s? indice adev?rul care nu este el, în timp ce Hristos este Adev?rul È™i prin urmare poate s?-l comunice prin Sine ÎnsuÈ™i.

A dilemma arises when the interests of these deaf adults seem at odds with those of the schoolchildren—for instance, when satisfying the wishes of the former means providing inadequate services to the latter. Some would argue that because hearing people have always controlled the definition of adequacy, that concept is invalid. Others hold that any deaf candidate is preferable to a hearing candidate for a position working with deaf children.

What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me.

But very good isn't always good enough, Miss Flynn.

What is called for is not an integration of thought, or a kind of imposed unity, for any such imposed point of view would itself be merely another fragment. Rather, all our different ways of thinking are to be considered as different ways of looking at the one reality, each with some domain in which it is clear and adequate.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.