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Adequacy is sufficient.
He had delusions of adequacy.
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.
What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.
Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.
. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.
The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged
Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.
To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.
Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.
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.
For more than 30 years, the state of Nevada and local communities have rejected the Yucca Mountain project. In fact, the state has filed over 200 contentions against the Department of Energy's license application, challenging the adequacy of the department's environmental impact assessments.
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.
