Adequate Quotes
Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.
If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.
My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.
As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to adequate reparation for the suffering endured.
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.
Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.
To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.
The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.
A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.
Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.