Demand Quotes - Page 5

• You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

  Mary J. Blige

  Respect, Giving, Firsts

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• Supply creates its own demand.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Economics, Supply And Demand

  Jean-Baptiste Say (2016). “Jean-Baptiste Say and Political Economy”, p.42, Routledge

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• You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Peers, Television, Film

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• Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sacrifice, Effort, Energy

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Intellectual, Vices

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.62, Routledge

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• Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

  Joseph Hume

  Country, Want, Commodity

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• The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

  Bela Lugosi

  Vampire, Roles, Fever

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• Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Powerful, Yield, Manipulation

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Teamwork, Im Sorry

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• How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Understanding, Able, Use

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• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Dog, Training, Inability

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

  Felicity Kendal

  Falling In Love, Love You, Roles

  "Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat" by Lyn Gardiner, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2002.

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• Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

  Trevor Dunn

  Marketing, Depth, Culture

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• The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

  James Joyce

  Reading, Should, Whole Life

  Quoted in F. L. Lucas, The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (1936)

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• Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

  John Mott

  Leadership, Relation, Realms

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• Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Friendship, Two, Assets

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

  Jesse Helms

  Jobs, Needs, Welcome

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• I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.

  Margaret Mead

  Science, Air, Listening

  Preface of Margaret Mead "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies" (p. 26), 1950 edition.

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• I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

  Joan Didion

  Night, Thinking, Doors

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 28, 2016

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• Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Meditation, Want

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• Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Technology, Aggravation, Oil

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• Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

  Vera Rubin

  Uplifting, Science, Most Inspiring

  "Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters". Book by Vera Rubin, 1997.

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• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

  Gail Sheehy

  Organization, Meditation, Growth

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• To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Appreciation, Mean, Power

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 42, 1799.

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