Requirements Quotes

• To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Happiness, Selfish, Stupid

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

  Ray Kroc

  Success, Time, Congratulations

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

  Albert Pike

  Lying, Hands, Brain

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

  Roger von Oech

  Survival, Flexibility

  Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books

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• With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

  Aristotle

  Art, Impossible, Possibility

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• Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Strength, Beautiful, Dream

  US Congress Congressional Record, V. 151, PT. 6, April 21, 2005 to May 5, 2005, p. 7471, 2009.

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  The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

  Pythagoras

  Thoughtful, Thought Provoking, Greek

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• Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

  Max Euwe

  Thinking, Tactics, Playing Chess

  "Sales - What A Concept!: A Guidebook for Sales Process Performance Improvement" by Henry C. (Sandy) Waters III, p. 11, 2011.

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• Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

  Epictetus

  Confidence, Creative, Nonsense

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• It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

  Joseph Heller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Men, History, Evil

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• A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

  Frank Herbert

  Creativity, Alive, Creator

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• It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer.... Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.

  St. Vincent

  God, Prayer, Helping Others

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• It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

  George Nakashima

  Fighting, Design, Woodworking

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• The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Growth, Yearning

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• There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought “Someday I will” can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Inspirational, Bible, God

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Jan 08, 2015

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

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Positive, Music

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers

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• Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Happiness, Feelings, Important

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.96, Westminster John Knox Press

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?

  C. F. W. Walther

  Love, God, Work

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• My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

  Edward Elgar

  Music, Art, Air

  Quoted in Robert J. Buckley, Sir Edward Elgar (1905)

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• We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. That’s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Love, Time, Responsibility

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• The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Book, Games

  Michael Chabon (2003). “Summerland”, Thorndike Pr

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• This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of a compassionate welfare program to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. Far from it. But it is to say that our duty is to foster a strong, vibrant wealth-producing economy which operates in such a way that new additions to wealth accrue to those who presently have little or no ownership stake in their country.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Strong, Government

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