Quotes about requirement
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“I tried to pick Nykyrian’s pocket last year. (Jana)
And you let him live? (Kiara)
I have an age requirement before I kill someone. (Nykyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Age

“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Feeling

“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Health, Reading, Weather

“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Forgiveness, Time, Personality

“Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.”

Hanif Kureishi book The Buddha of Suburbia

Source: The Buddha of Suburbia

“Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

Dreams, Heart

“An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Soul

“Being a decent human being will require effort and energy…”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Effort

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Variant: I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Source: Walden

Clothes

“Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.”

Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Source: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Learning, Chance, Parting

“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”

John Steinbeck book Once There Was a War

Source: Once There Was a War

People, World

“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Universe, Perfection

“The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Truth, Betrayal

“Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required.”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

Family

“That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings.”

Patrick Carman book The Dark Hills Divide

Source: The Dark Hills Divide

Decision, Flying

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Courage, Courageous, Moving On

“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Time, Clothes

“A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Angels, Learning

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

People, Religion

“There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Thinking

“Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”

Koushun Takami book Battle Royale

Source: Battle Royale

Love

“I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Stupidity

“acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.”

Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.”

Malcolm Gladwell book Blink

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

People, Forgiveness, Understanding, Nature

“To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Courage, Business

“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”

Benjamin Graham book The Intelligent Investor

Source: The Intelligent Investor

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.”

Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist

quote from Georges Jeanniot, in Souvenirs sur Degas (Memories of Degas, 1933)
quotes, undated

People, Painting

“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

Notes on Hospitals 3rd Edition (1863), Preface
Variant: It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Source: Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

“Escape plan #5: Open an alpaca ranch in Texas, one that requires all blond-haired, brown-eyed, brainy girls to wear sexy cowgirl outfits.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Girl

“Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.”

Sharon Shinn (1957) American science fiction writer

Source: Jenna Starborn

Love, Heart

“All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.”

Simon Singh (1964) British author

Source: Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

“Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”

Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 2 (24 March 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=2&division=div1 Source: The Rambler (1750–1752)

Men

“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

Clothes

“Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Life, Reading

“Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.”

Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire

Source: Soul of the Fire

Reality, Effort

“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 book The Story of My Life

Part III, Ch. 2: Personality http://books.google.com/books?id=zev1dMhB7C4C&q=Toleration+&quot;is+the+greatest+gift+of+the+mind+it+requires+the+same+effort+of+the+brain+that+it+takes+to+balance+oneself+on+a+bicycle&quot;&pg=PA295#v=onepage The Story of My Life (1903)

Effort, Wise

“… if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Source: Believing God

God, Departure

“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

"Competition as a crutch" http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/07/competition-as-a-crutch.html Seth's Blog (2012-07-16) Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Way, Problem

“As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour”

William H. Gass (1924–2017) Fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor

Love, Sense

“God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

God, Faith, Art

“She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

Time

“Evil requires the sanction of the victim.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Evil

“Dogs are a gift to mankind. They are happy and joyful and loyal by nature. They are pure, positive energy and teach by example. That is all that's required of them.”

Alyson Nöel book Radiance

Source: Radiance

Happiness, Dogs, Nature

“The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Source: Summa Contra Gentiles

Love, Men, God, Truth

“To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

Happiness, Health, Stupidity, Selfishness

“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Time

“If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.”

Robert M. Sapolsky book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Source: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Strong

“And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.”

Frank Beddor Seeing Redd

Source: Seeing Redd

“You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms."
Joe Morelli”

Janet Evanovich Four to Score

Source: Four to Score

“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

People, Imagination

“The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

JMSNews (31 January 2008) http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17708&topic=Spiderman. Context: The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.

“That which doesn’t kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb)
Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Tear

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

Life, Courage, Thinking

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.”

Rafael Sabatini book Scaramouche

Source: Scaramouche

Change

“Could you please put this--could you all put these--could you get dressed, please?"
The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me. "We are as the Goddess requires."
"The Goddess requires you to be naked on my lawn?”

Kelley Armstrong book Dime Store Magic

Source: Dime Store Magic

Smile

“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings… if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Books, Imagination, Reading, Parting

“I had learned this lesson so many times
before. It was the great inner truth that
didn't require the support of logic. Every
time I loved, I lost, and I was diminished.
I wondered how much of me would be left
after tomorrow.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Love, Truth, Support, Learning

“Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.”

Mark Kurlansky (1948) American journalist

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

Imagination, Idea

“The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.”

Norman Rush (1933) American writer

Life, Effort, Time, Reading

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Source: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Way, Communication

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American journalist

A Preface to Morals (1929)

Wisdom, Music, Understanding

“Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Dreams, Effort

“It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Source: The Present Age

“I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man."”

U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher

Part 2: The Mystique of Enlightenment
The Mystique of Enlightenment (1982)
Source: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti

Way, Intelligence, Nature

“Innovation requires articulation.”

Walter Isaacson (1952) American writer and biographer

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

“Let’s talk.” I pinned Red to his chair with my stare. I did deranged quite well, when the occasion required.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“As Nietzsche said, ‘that which doesn’t kill you– ’(Alexion)
Will only require brief hospitalization. And if you’re a Dark-Hunter, just a good day’s sleep. (Danger)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Sleep

“Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

Life, Peace, Waiting, Perfection

“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.”

Howard Zinn book A People's History of the United States

Source: A People's History of the United States

Law, Time

“True success requires sacrifice.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Variant: Good luck is a sham. True success requires sacrifice.
Source: The Mark of Athena

Success

“Waking up to you is like… presents on Christmas morning."
His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Christmas

“Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Variant: You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence
-Eli
Source: Along for the Ride

Life, Parting

“One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Dreams, Sleep

“The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.”

David Rakoff (1964–2012) writer

Source: Half Empty

Art

“You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that.

"And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.”

Jim Butcher book Ghost Story

Source: Ghost Story

Stupidity

“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 (1889–1975) Plastic surgeon, self-help author

Life, Happiness, Idea, Courage

“Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Imagination

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist

Life, Happiness

“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea.... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 7

Happiness, Feeling, Wine, Heart

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Love, Faith

“Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Source: The Signature of All Things

Beauty

“In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.”

John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author

School, Faith

“Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.”

Julia Cameron (1948) American writer

Faith

“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Travel, Time

“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”

Gwen Bristow (1903–1980) American author and journalist

“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”

Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Life

“The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.”

Brian Greene (1963) American physicist

Source: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Question

“Privacy — like eating and breathing — is one of life's basic requirements.”

Katherine Neville (1945) American novelist

A Calculated Risk: A Novel (1992) https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRDGCQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT56&ots=olyqo4o6dc&dq=%E2%80%9CPrivacy%20-%20like%20eating%20and%20breathing%20-%20is%20one%20of%20life%27s%20basic%20requirements%22&pg=PT56#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CPrivacy%20-%20like%20eating%20and%20breathing%20-%20is%20one%20of%20life's%20basic%20requirements%22&f=false

Life

“The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

People, Religion, Problem, Thinking

“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Fear, Law

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