This book fills a much-needed gap.
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.
The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
I'm fed up with the idiots. . . the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.
To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.
There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.
If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.
There is no gap between art and politics.
It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties and thirties there is a kind of gap.
The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.
Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.
The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening.
[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect