Best Demands Sayings
1272 Demands quotes by 997 unique authors
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Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds…
— Eli Broad
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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it…
— George Santayana
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This…
— Maria Montessori
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When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier,…
— Cesar Chavez
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...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police…
— Cesar Chavez
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The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to…
— Sigmund Freud
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Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
— William Feather
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Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.
— George S. Patton
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I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot…
— Yao Ming
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You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.
— Steven Pressfield
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Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This…
— Bertrand Russell
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
— Seneca the Elder
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
— Barbara Tuchman
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If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a…
— Ernest K. Gann
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Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
— Jacques Ellul
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Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a…
— E F Schumacher
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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the…
— Oswald Chambers
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A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
— Susanna Kaysen
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best…
— Learned Hand
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Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others…
— Eric Hoffer
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The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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