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“When you start seeing your product as your customer’s product and not as your product, you will start seeing all the missing gaps.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?�� The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any shutter left open to the zenith at night will record the wheeling of all the sky’s stars as a pattern of perfect, concentric circles. I seek a reduction, a shedding, a sloughing off.

At the seashore you often see a shell, or fragment of a shell, that sharp sands and surf have thinned to a wisp. There is no way you can tell what kind of shell it had been, what creature it had housed; it could have been a whelk or a scallop, a cowrie, limpet, or conch. The animal is long since dissolved, and its blood spread and thinned in the general sea. All you hold in your hand is a cool shred of shell, an inch long, pared so thin that it passes a faint pink light. It is an essence, a smooth condensation of the air, a curve. I long for the North where unimpeded winds would hone me to such a pure slip of bone. But I’ll not go northing this year. I’ll stalk that floating pole and frigid air by waiting here. I wait on bridges; I wait, struck, on forest paths and meadow’s fringes, hilltops and banksides, day in and day out, and I receive a southing as a gift. The North washes down the mountains like a waterfall, like a tidal wave, and pours across the valley; it comes to me. It sweetens the persimmons and numbs the last of the crickets and hornets; it fans the flames of the forest maples, bows the meadow’s seeded grasses and pokes it chilling fingers under the leaf litter, thrusting the springtails and the earthworms deeper into the earth. The sun heaves to the south by day, and at night wild Orion emerges looming like the Specter over Dead Man Mountain. Something is already here, and more is coming.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazing touch. Last night Orion vaulted and spread all over the sky, pagan and lunatic, his shoulder and knee on fire, his sword three suns at the ready-for what?

I won’t see this year again, not again so innocent; and longing wrapped round my throat like a scarf. “For the Heavenly Father desires that we should see,�� says Ruysbroeck, “and that is why He is ever saying to our inmost spirit one deep unfathomable word and nothing else.�� But what is the word? Is this mystery or coyness? A cast-iron bell hung from the arch of my rib cage; when I stirred, it rang, or it tolled, a long syllable pulsing ripples up my lungs and down the gritty sap inside my bones, and I couldn’t make it out; I felt the voiced vowel like a sigh or a note but I couldn’t catch the consonant that shaped it into sense.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children enter kindergarten and does not grow as children progress through school. The gaps in cognitive achievement by level of maternal education that we observe at age 18-powerful predictors of who goes to college and who does not - are mostly present at age 6when children enter school. Schooling plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps.”
― Robert D. Putnam, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

“He slept under the sky, holding her hand, filling the gaps between her fingers and losing himself inside the soul in the course of counting the stars, she was hiding inside her eyes.”
― Akshay Vasu

“It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the valley like a waterfall, like a tidal wave, all the leaves of the hardwoods from here to Hudson’s Bay. It was as if the season’s colors were draining away like lifeblood, as if the year were molting and shedding. The year was rolling down, and a vital curve had been reached, the tilt that gives way to headlong rush. And when the monarch butterflies had passed and were gone, the skies were vacant, the air poised. The dark night into which the year was plunging was not a sleep but an awakening, a new and necessary austerity, the sparer climate for which I longed. The shed trees were brittle and still, the creek light and cold, and my spirit holding its breath.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Don't fight your thoughts. Allow them to come, but don’t cling to them. The small gaps between thoughts create the power in meditation.”
― Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy, What You Seek Is Seeking You

“The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business

“I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coasts the sea tides would be springing strong. The air itself also has lunar tides; I lay still. Could I feel in the air an invisible sweep and surge, and an answering knock in the lungs? Or could I feel the starlight? Every minute on a square mile of this land one ten thousandth of an ounce of starlight spatters to earth. What percentage of an ounce did that make on my eyes and cheeks and arms, tapping and nudging as particles, pulsing and stroking as waves?”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business

“Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business

“Prior to taking up philosophy I had spent half a decade as an art student and I am quite sure that what persuaded me of the importance and veracity of these ancient ideas was my art school education. For art making is all about discerning and creating structures. When later, as a philosophy student, I read Wittgenstein’s instruction to attend to the differences, I heard an echo of the art teacher’s command to look at the gaps between objects and draw them also.”
― John Haldane, Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical

“Without breaks, faults, and gaps, nothing could grow and nothing would become.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“Before We Begin
Is Your Bug A nice clean original car that looks almost like it
left the showroom yesterday?
P.S. All work should be carried out in consultation with a reliable workshop manual with regard to torque settings, gaps, procedures, sequences disassembly, reassembly, where to hide the leftover parts, etc. I will accept no responsibility for anything resulting from
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Sincerely,
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― Christina Engela, Bugspray

“Today’s digital organizations simply just can’t stand still. Bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business

“The depth of perspective and strength of character are what make thinking profound.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business

“Perception is the way one’s eyes see the surrounds and one’s mind interprets it.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business

“Insight is a perception beyond the thought, a multi-dimensional cognizance, and it’s the experience to explore oneself, surrounds and beyond.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business

“Knowledge pertains to knowing and to intelligence while wisdom has to do with the soundness of judgment.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business

“Having a title only doesn’t make one a leader; talented people without a title don’t follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business

“Genuinely intelligence-led operations have to be embedded into both processes and more importantly mindsets to bridge the gaps in Risk Management.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business

“The best fit for the board depends on the board’s current makeup, culture, and which “gap�� needs to be filled.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Digital transformation is to optimize the whole via bridging the gaps between separate silos.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit

“While doing research, a researcher tries to fill up gap(s) but also unknowingly creates gap(s). The later researcher(s) tries to fill that specific gap(s) and adds something new to the existing knowledge. Such is the beauty of ‘research��!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“গবেষণা করার সম�� একজন গবেষ�� শূন্যস্থান(গুলো) পূরণ করেন, কিন্তু অজান্তেই শূন্যস্থান(গুলো) সৃষ্টি�� করেন�� পরবর্তী গবেষকগ�� সে�� নির্দিষ্�� শূন্যস্থান(গুলো) পূরণের চেষ্টা করেন এব�� বিদ্যমান জ্ঞানে�� সাথে নতুন জ্ঞা�� যুক্�� করেন�� ‘গবেষণা’র সৌন্দর্য এমনই!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Where do they go, those girls that accidentally fall through a gap in the universe? What's on the other side?”
― Leanne Hall, The Gaps

“Here was a whole life Beth had missed, a hole where a life should have been. But then, he thought, the universe was made up of holes--was it so terrible to be swept into one? After all. The holes were the black between stars, between constellations. It was holes that were the fabric of the galaxy.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream