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Adequacy is sufficient. -- Adam Osborne
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence. -- Peter Drucker
Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous. -- Adam Osborne
What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all. -- Winston Churchill
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy. -- E. Stanley Jones
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. -- Neal A. Maxwell
. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest. -- Noam Chomsky
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. -- T. S. Eliot
True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy. -- Ray Stedman
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy. -- Ram Dass
Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace. -- Henry A. Kissinger
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. -- Malcolm Gladwell
One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more. -- Michael Josephson
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency. -- Alistair Begg
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy. -- Charles Stanley
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences. -- Immanuel Kant
There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige -- Abraham Maslow
War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy. -- Walter Millis
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power. -- William James
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life-that is the heart of existentialism. -- Walter Kaufmann
Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment. -- Rudolph Rummel
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries. -- Ellen Langer
...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God. -- Charles H. Kraft
He had delusions of adequacy. -- Walter Kerr
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces. -- Alan Moore
He had delusions of adequacy -- Walter Kerr
Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes -- Albert Bandura
The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged -- Albert Bandura
The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity. -- Abram L. Sachar
The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them. -- Paul Feyerabend
We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence. -- Paul Kurtz

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