#adequate

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother. ↗

— Liz Smith

#call #encounter #enjoy #feel #groups

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. ↗

— Bob Barr

#argue #challenges #difficult #impossible #intelligence

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#adequate #civilization #could #evolved #food supply

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#armament #defend #defense #faith #machines

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. ↗

— Nam June Paik

#body #existence #inadequate #new #reality

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#art #attempting #beyond #cannot #canyon

I was a terrible dancer. I couldn't carry a tune. I had no sense of balance, and when we had to walk down a narrow board with our hands out and a book on our heads in gym class I always fell over. I couldn't ride a horse or ski, the two things I wanted to do most, because they cost too much money. I couldn't speak German or read Hebrew or write Chinese. I didn't even know where most of the old out-of-the-way countries the UN men in front of me represented fitted in on the map. For the first time in my life, sitting there in the soundproof heart of the UN building between Constantin who could play tennis as well as simultaneously interpret and the Russian girl who knew so many idioms, I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#life

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#arranged #awe #deep #edge #end

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#graduate #high #high school #how #imagine

I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up. ↗

— Gary Ross

#adequately #big #characters #come #end