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“The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.”

Important Force Leadership Business Quality Leader Longevity Lacking Lacking Something

Author:Andre Maurois

“I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.”

Strong Term Team Sufficient Take Time Lacking Inspirational Team Fluidity Inspirational Soccer

Author:Jose Mourinho

“If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.”

Ifs Men Heart Made Waiting Prayer Mistake Honest Fellows Word Of God Instruction Lacking Declaration Fellow Man Great Mistakes Uprightness

Book:Answers to Prayer

Source: Answers to Prayer

“Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.”

Firsts Soul Light Poor Sun Understood First Time Empty My Soul Lacking Bud Germs

Book:Memories

Source: Memories

“I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.”

Way Trying Important Husband Benefits My Husband Lacking Hippie Uptight

Author:Amanda Peet

“In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.”

“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.”

People Humans Easy Poor Views Poverty Media Objects Conflict Dignity Pity Agency Lacking Poor People Badass Human Dignity Personal Dignity American Media

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They're lacking something in their own personal lives, so they want the adoration of autographs and all that stuff.”

Thinking Want Actors Stuff Stranger Lacking Personal Life Adoration Autographs Lacking Something

Author:John C. Reilly

“I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.”

Thinking Should Mind Play Today Behinds Sitting Get Up Tunes Lacking Solo Drummer Sitting Up Playing Drums

Author:Buddy Rich

“I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.”

People Thinking World Kind Hero Celebrate Around The World Lacking

Author:Howard Schultz

“If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.”

Ifs Want Goes On Lacking Something Better

Author:Juliette Binoche

“The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.”

Literature Term Century Discovery Ideals Logic Aspiration Cosmic Lacking Nineteenth Century

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.”

Political Liberty Learning Students Inspired University Critical Libertarian Ignorant Heritage Cynical Libertarianism Lacking

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.”

Ifs World Giving Mind States Happiness Peace Pleasure Quality Power Possession Happy Uplifting Peace Of Mind State Of Mind Lacking Being Happy True Happiness Authentic Happiness

Author:Dada Vaswani

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”

Humans Doe Beautiful Nature Simple Beauty Hair Direct Simplicity Invention Lacking Inventing Subtlety Superfluous Human Inventions Inventing Things

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”

Source: Native Son

“Life and death have been lacking in my life.”

Has Beens Life And Death Lacking

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.”

Feelings Happens Asks Lacking Reassurance Reassuring

Author:Francis Collins

“Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking”

Real Insight Real Life Cynicism Lacking

Author:Anita Roddick

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”

Thinking Life Feelings Quality Impossible Risk Let Me Ridiculous Genuine Revolutionary Lacking Seeming Great Feelings

Book:Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution

Source: Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution

“It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”

Way Book Hands Running Strong Taken Clear Possession Shops Lacking Breeding Habitat Multiplying Strong Hands

Author:Agatha Christie

“I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.”

Kind Stars Quality Genius Areas Lacking

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.”

Believe Humans Sometimes I Believe Dog Integrity I Believe In Lacking Humans And Dogs

Author:Cesar Millan

“His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.”

Would Be Virtue Granted Lacking Deserving

Book:Collected fiction

Source: Collected fiction

“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”

Success Understanding Decision Keys Former Latter Decision Making Swimming Lacking Blink Good Decision Outliers

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”

Joy Pleasure Depends Taste Normal Lacking Twists Abnormal Perversion

Author:Anais Nin

“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.”

Want Looks Stories Today Spirit Fall Evil Chance Novel Reader Cost Demand Raised Forgotten Innocence Listeners Lacking Storyteller Restoration Mock Damnation

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

Bird Chaos Seeking Novelists Lacking Cages Deep Meaning

Author:Franz Kafka

“Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.”

Ifs Way Prayer Obedience Lacking

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.”

Believe Heart Long Spiritual Spirituality Grows Capacity Unhappy Anxious Trust In God Lacking Autobiography Of A Yogi

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.”

Religion Perfect Results Support Wise Words Balance Absolutes Structure Islam Architecture Islamic Lacking Quran Superfluous Complement Composure Islamic Wisdom Perfect Work

Author:Muhammad Asad

“Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.”

Found Fine Internals Organs Lacking

Author:Donita K. Paul

“...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.”

World Giving Should Heart Lost Despair Filled Certainty Portions Lacking Anguish Giving Back Attempting Lost Heart

Book:A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation

Source: A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation

“It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?”

“Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.”

Humans Understanding Compassion Kindness Taste Normal Ordinary Lacking Decency

Book:King Dork

Source: King Dork

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”

Hate Imagination Acceptance Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Hatred Novelists Lacking Deep Thought Stop Hating

Author:Graham Greene

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition”

Ifs Doe Political Order Politics Poor Poverty Streets Ambition Making Money Despise Lacking Simplify Inner Life Ending Poverty

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.”

Ifs Difficult Views Achieve Lacking Desirable

Book:Machiavelli: The Prince

Source: Machiavelli: The Prince

“Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence”

Would Be Father Parent Creation Broken Needed Let Me Parenting Absence Lacking Emphasis Mothering Fathering

Author:William P. Young

“I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.”

Ifs Skills Teeth Knives Lacking Forks Spoons Manuals

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.”

World Danger Produce Killing Contrary Meaning Of Life Visible Lacking

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.”

Reason Our Lives Lacking Event Horizon Suffocating

Author:Alan Moore

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”

People Men Three Born Achieve Mets Majors Distinction Mediocrity Impressed Lacking Mediocre Thrust

Author:Joseph Heller

“What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.”

Ifs Should Doe Art Book Care Interest Demand Essentials Criticism Forgiving Faults Refuse Lacking Improbable Canon Literary Art

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking.”

Way Said Ideas Loses Succeed Agree Details Dare Excellent Lacking

Book:The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain

“How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.”

Men Marriage Comfort Stranger Intuition Lacking Sock Attending Persuading Mending

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.”

World Humans Light Joy Fall Hours Simple Watches Balance Terror Triumph Destructive Lacking Darkest Hour Simple Joys

Author:Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?”

People Ifs World Believe Wells Known This World Accounts Proof Vampire Officials Reports Priests Lacking Well Known Surgeons Judicial Magistrates

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.”

Mean Feelings Form Language Social Emotion Share Communication Crosses Species Endure Lacking Glue Social Bonds

Book:The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter

Source: The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter

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