Quotation Explorer - 'Requires'

Civility sometimes requires polite ruthlessness. Establish that what you prize most is civility. - Jimmy Bise Jr.
Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside. - David Hawkins
Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives. - Deborah Day
...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A poem is an instant, lightning across the sky. Prose is before the storm, the storm, after the storm. - Molly Peacock
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. - Erich Fromm
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. - Henry Ward Beecher
The best way to maximize your time is by not wasting time. This requires planning and having an awareness of how you spend your time throughout the day. - Tasha Hoggatt
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not. - Jeremy Taylor
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. - Mary Baker Eddy
Just be yourself. It is the only freedom you will ever have. Besides, trying to be someone that you're not requires too much work-Mentally and physically. - Andrea L'Artiste
Mindfulness is the awareness of what is going on in us and around us in the present moment. It requires stopping, looking deeply, and recognizing both the uniqueness of the moment and its connection to everything that has gone on before and will go on in the future. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't be nice to me. Be what your personality requires you to be. Be what your nature requires you to be. Be real. Don't pressurize yourself. - M. Danish
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. - Abraham Lincoln
Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them. - David Kitts
Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence. - David W. Earle
Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love. - Auliq Ice
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. - David Rockefeller
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art. - Bruce Lee
Dark night knows what full moon requires When all your love my heart acquiresCelestial bodies no more faded Life makes sound; silence invaded - Munia Khan
Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination. - Christina Westover
No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed! - Mehmet Murat ildan
To be affirming and encouraging of others requires vulnerability on your part. - -Shandel Slaten
Maintaining one’s health in today’s toxic rich environment requires proper rest, hydration, an abundant intake of nutrients, and regular internal cleansing practices - Gary Hopkins
The success of any project requires planning and preparation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum. - Joseph Epstein
Leaders should never look down on the people who put them into power because every leadership requires followers. - Gugu Mona
Woman cannot survive on droplets, she requires waves to regularly crash over her shores as the moon gives way to the sun... - Virginia Alison
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage requires maturity. Marriage requires two people who, for the rest of their lives, are willing to listen, to really listen to each other. And that marriage requires the greatest of all things, compromise. - Coach Taylor
If asked for an opinion we’ll say what we think. And by what we think I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that’s what our communication boils down to. - Aaron Blaylock
Being a ninja mom requires you to have ninja faith! - Anna M. Aquino
terrorism is adamant. Fight against requires endurance, specific Counter-terrorism, Intelligence and swift operation - Michael Harris
Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline. - Paula Wagner
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin
The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them. - Thomas M. Sterner
There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly. - Michael Bassey Johnson
(Quoted by ) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect. - Thomas Carlyle
Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire. - Joseph Smith Jr.
If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith. - DaShanne Stokes
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. - Richard Thompson
Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt. - Nathaniel Branden
It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless. - Sean Kamali
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development. - Alfred North Whitehead
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? - Irvin D. Yalom
Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development. - Auliq Ice
Living without personal boundaries is like trying to hold my breath and gasp for air, at the same time, it doesn't work. My introverted nature requires solitary sanctuary, to breathe. My internal batteries need time to recharge if i am to give from a place of abundance. - Jaeda DeWalt
The search for knowledge requires effort. - Sunday Adelaja
Every living thing requires love to survive for without it, we die. - Sanjo Jendayi
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. - John Foster Dulles
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Develop a vision, not a goal. Visions are much more powerful. 98% of what’s going on in your brain is subconscious. Developing a vision requires the use of more of your brain than just developing a thought, which suggests we are tapping into subconscious brain power. - Josh Bezoni
It's a choice, it’s a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!! - Heidi Reagan
Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own. - Osman Doluca
Faith requires following the power of a whisper. - Shannon L. Alder
An iron does not rust of its own for it requires oxygen, chloride and moisture from the environment to corrode. Similarly, a citizen's life remains robust until the surrounding is vitiated from all around. - Anuj Somany
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude. - John Chrysostom
Faith isn't hearing the voice of God. It's listening and hearing nothing, but moving toward the miracle anyway. God hears us even when we don't hear him. Knowing that requires real faith. - Toni Sorenson
Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study. - Wynton Marsalis
Becoming a failure requires no strength;becoming a success requires great fortitude. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Wealth is a planned result that requires productive work and dedication. The Tanakh says, The plans of the diligent lead only to abundance; but all who rush in arrive only at want (CJB, Proverbs 21:5). - H.W. Charles
Effective communication requires active listening skills. - Farshad Asl
There is a big difference between motion and action. Just because you get out of bed doesn't mean you are making progress. Taking action requires decisiveness, dedication, and clear direction. - Farshad Asl
The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue! - Richard Greenberg
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. - Plato
Moving forward requires a change of stance. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Achievement requires a strong will, failure, a stubborn won't. - Rand Charles
Most are constantly asking for more, but with that comes more responsibility and most aren't willing to or able to handle that. Greatness comes at a cost and requires an investment. If you don't want the work.... you don't want the prize. - Randa Manning-Johnson
Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer. - Janet Crain
Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order. - Richelle E. Goodrich
To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand. - Shannon L. Alder
Accomplishment of your dreams requires personal sacrifice and hardworking.May the you have a determined spirit, will power and a great passion for the accomplishment of your dreams. - Lailah GiftyAkita
A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress. - R.P. Falconer
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. - Oscar Wilde
The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points. - Shannon L. Alder
To believe the ridiculous requires the strictest logic. - Marty Rubin
Winning requires a crystal clear vision, relentless passion and complete dedication with No Excuses. - Farshad Asl
A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. - Wayne W. Dyer
Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food. - John H. Tobe
Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom. - Carl Sagan
Life is a chemical reaction, it only requires balancing! - priyavrat gupta
The dream is free - to live it requires HUSTLE. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
You can't live in your mind and expect those dreams to become real, without the work. Reality requires actions that might feel scary, but that is what is required if you want to find true love. Don't expect it to come and rescue you. You have to rescue yourself. - Shannon L. Alder
If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive - Ronald Reagan
Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills - Fela Durotoye
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. - Gaston Bachelard
Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see. - Shannon L. Alder
Successful living requires prioritizing. - Bill Munn
To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one. - L.R.W. Lee
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? - Annie Dillard
Be patient with yourself.The journey of life requires alot of patient, persistence and perseverance. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known. - Dada Bhagwan
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. - Norman Mailer
To live in a world that requires you to become someone else, being yourself is your best choice and most valuable accomplishment."- - Steven Cuoco
Inner positivity requires when you are trying to achieve your goal!! - Gargi Vyas
Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful. - Frans de Waal
Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight. - Solomon E. Asch
A Good Relationship is like a neat and defined nail art. It requires a lot of concentration, time devotion and patience, to take it to perfection! - Mehek Bassi
Life requires that we at times confront things that are wrong. - Sunday Adelaja
Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. - Heinrich Heine
Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. - Ryan Lilly
To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself - Gary Hopkins
Marriage is for the mature, not the infantile. The fusion of two different personalities requires emotional balance and control on the part of each person. - Archie Lee
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. - Margaret Fuller
For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams. - Nicholas Sparks
To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect. - Auliq Ice
As men and women we need to occupy our space as Kings and Queens; move into our new reality. It only requires mindset. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
One who is hungry for growth, doesn't requires motivation and training.. He just needs an opportunity... - honeya
...capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond those characteristic of modern economics. That is why this is a history not of economic ideas, but of ideas beyond the capitalist economy. - Jerry Z. Muller
To live on the edge requires an exceptional ability to balance. - Tarryn Tomlinson
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. - Farmers' Almanac
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use.
Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men. - Auberon Herbert
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. - Aeschylus
Life is not a spectator sport; it requires full pads and full participation. - Toni Sorenson
The journey of life requires alot of enthusiasms, great passion and commitment. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires. - John Owen
The Arab Spring whose seeds failed to bloom anything other than a chaotic mess that requires only blood to grow has contributed immensely to the rising numbers of these migrants. - Aysha Taryam
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred North Whitehead
Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in. - Stella Payton
Creativity is more important than imagination because it requires action. - Matthew Donnelly
I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin. - Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation. - Hosea Ballou
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well. - Jane Austen
Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times. - John White
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws. - Pope Pius XI
A modern U.S. Navy cruiser now requires 26 tons of manuals. This is enough to affect the vessel's performance.
The path to joy and spiritual fulfilment requires the courage to change and grow. - A. G. Roemmers
Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange. - Robert Kegan
Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification? - R. Stevens
Walking on water requires feet of faith. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law. - Rousas John Rushdoony
To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you. - Anne Carson
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. - Bernard Berenson
Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised. - Gregory B. Sadler
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. - Raquel Welch
The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative assumptions. - Paul A.M. Dirac
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
They say that facing oneself is the sign of a zany man, but facing this flabby belly requires a lot of courage.
Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind. - Steven Poore
Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Be bold. Be not fearful. Take actions. Action is real. Results requires interpretation and depends on perception. - Debasish Mridha
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. - Maxwell Maltz
God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path. - Jim George
#3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts.
The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies. The most gigantic intellect may be dwarfed by being cabin'd, cribbed and confined. It requires a great country and great circumstances to develop great men.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. - Carlos Castaneda
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann
Sometimes, love requires extraordinary courage. - Shannon L. Alder
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it. - Baltasar Gracián
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. - John Stuart Mill
We rise, we fall.Life is a lesson.But, if not lived with the heart,holds no depth, no meaning.We must feel pain, to feel the joy, to feel the pain, and so on, so forth.It requires great courage.I try with all my mightto hold gratitude in the lesson.Thank you universe for showing mefor teaching me. - Akiroq Brost
In order for a person to be able to turn our lives and our wills over requires something very difficult for a spiritually wounded person to accomplish - Trust. Yet, to accomplish this step, trust of the spirit must be present. - David W. Earle
The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone. - Ellen J. Barrier
The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life. - Shannon L. Alder
Living a fulfilling relationship requires courage, nakedness and absolute fearlessness. - Liliane Mavridara
Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course. - Ryan Lilly
Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment. - Sri Amma Bhagwan
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. - Aristotle
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. - Sophia Loren
To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry. - Mac MacKenzie
...failure promotes success only if you actually take the time to analyze your mistakes.." "Failure has to be separated from fault, and for many people that requires a bit of deprogramming, as we learn early on that they are one and the same." "In this framework, intention is extremely important. - Amanda Lang
People-pleasers feel they must constantly be performing acts of service to others to gain acceptance. That requires a lot of work, effort, and energy. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label. - Eddie Capparucci, LPC
Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over, perhaps create their own world where everything is better.. - TheBakaViolinist
Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it’s difficult. - Jim George
Life requires more than a whisper of wisdom - Julian Pencilliah
Every new situation requires new strategy. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Anybody can sympathise with the suffering of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde
What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer. - Sandra Brown
ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. --Oliver Cromwell - Ambrose Bierce
In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous. - Albert Einstein
Teachers achievements does not requires their positions. Because real teacher must not focus in certificates but instead the experiences he encounter to the learners,that he touches the future he teach. - Adoniemar
Everything new requires determination and courage from a person. - Sunday Adelaja
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. - Martin Luther King Jr.
What lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door. - Tom Althouse
It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Purpose requires persistence. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same. - Robert E. Lee
Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding. - Bill Bullard
Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work? - Robert A. Glover
Phenomenal requires individuality; There are no shortcuts. - Andrea L'Artiste
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires. - Albert Schweitzer
What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need. - George Alexiou
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. - Persian Proverb
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? - Paul Gauguin
Sometimes inspiration just requires looking at things from a different point of view. - Aaron Hartzler
Change requires one to start now here or nowhere. Both places require one to pass through the same starting point today, right now from Cinderella In Focus - H.L. Balcomb
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered. - Viktor E. Frankl
Each artwork requires its own design - Siren Waroe
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. - Russell Baker
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. - Thomas Szasz
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. - C.S. Lewis
Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web. - Jenna Alatari
Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system. - Mildred Blaxter
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. - Mary Pettibone Poole
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. - John Gray
Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust. - Mary Field Belenky
Becoming successful is a rough journey that carries pain and requires perseverance. - Auliq Ice
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. - Helen Keller
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing. - John Tillotson
Only one kind of religion cannot give peace to everyone. Whatever ‘degree’ one is sitting at, that ‘degree’ of religion he requires. - Dada Bhagwan
To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time. - Shannon L. Alder
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it. - Erica Jong
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm
I don't know how to hate; It requires the same force as love for me. APATHY is the answer I find. - Anshika Verma
To understand women who look both ways requires hearing their stories, not just noting the sex of their current partner. And when you listen closely, it's apparent these women have learned something crucial in these relationships. - Jennifer Baumgardner
A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie. - Joe Blow
Be grateful for the twists in the road. They teach us humility and grace. And any dancer in this life requires both - Margaret Moss Painter
Unlocking your potential requires the key of faith. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The perfect host requires the perfect parasite.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Much better stay in company!To love you must have someone else,Giving requires a legatee,Good neighbours need whole parishfulsOf folk to do it on - in short,Our virtues are all social; if,Deprived of solitude, you chafe,It's clear you're not the virtuous sort. - Philip Larkin
If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves. - Ayya Khema
An organisation can neither appreciate nor appraise correctly a bright & talent till the people at its topmost height think that it requires a wrong person over the right workforce to get the job done. - Anuj Somany
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. - William Hazlitt
Ransomware is unique among cybercrime because in order for the attack to be successful, it requires the victim to become a willing accomplice after the fact - James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave like him, react like him as well. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Truthfulness requires humility as well as courage. - Marty Rubin
The first and most important thing that God requires of a man is to bear responsibility for future generations - Sunday Adelaja
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. - Charles Caleb Colton
Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past. - Rob Martin
Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist. - Andrew Sullivan
Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward get real with yourself! - Bryant McGill
All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point. - Angie Morgan
You will never change a prospective customer’s mind, my boy. There is a chance that he might make a new decision if enough reliable evidence comes his way, but to do that he has to want to listen - to hear it - and that requires trust and respect. - Chris Murray
They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute forgiveness. But when your memories are freshly opened wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human emotions. - Emily Thorne
Your faith requires your action to back it up. Choose to see what part you must participate in to see your circumstance improve and personally grow and appreciate the victory because of it. - Dionna L. Hayden
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. - Erich Fromm
For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless. - Sean S. Kamali
There is no growth in comfort, only complacency. True growth requires life's challenges to reveal and exercise our full potential. - Dionna L. Hayden
Love is free. It only requires a kind and accepting heart. - Premchand Shetty
I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. - Libba Bray
Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds... - Leigh Hunt
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life - Henry David Thoreau
Making hard decisions in life to accomplish the dreams, It requires a gut from within. - Mohith Agadi
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention. - Christopher Morley
Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus and commitment by two willing partners - Elizabeth Bourgeret
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it. - Benjamin Franklin
Making decisions about whether to keep and how to organize objects requires categorization skills, confidence in one's ability to remember, and sustained attention. To maintain order, one also needs the ability to efficiently assess the value or utility of an object.
The level of sacrifice that a vision requires will determine the size of people who follow such leader. - Adedayo Olabamiji
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. - Alain de Botton
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. - W. Somerset Maugham
What we now call "morality" was evolved as nearly all social and physical human attributes were to aid us in survival and, ultimately, reproduction. This morality requires only that we be guided by our developed conscience (or "moral sense") and not a God or gods. - David G. McAfee
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. - Mother Teresa
Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters. - Ryan Lilly
Carving the world outside of you requires magical insights and deep out-worldly thinking. - Royal Cromwell
Parenting requires a delicate balance of letting your child be your spiritual teacher while you maintain the clarity and boundaries to be her Earthly teacher. - Jennifer Griffin
Leading a nation requires sacrifice; justice is the first one. - M.F. Moonzajer
A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. - Robert Higgs
There are problems and conditions of this world that man nor woman can solve; it requires His grace and mercy. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before. - Robert Graves
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. - Henri Matisse
All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand. - Terry Darlington
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