Indispensable Quotes

382 quotes by 312 authors

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which… — Martin Buber
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or… — Walter Pater
It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable. — Wendell Berry
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. — Jorge Luis Borges
Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time. — Brian Tracy
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. — Man Ray
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. — Wassily Kandinsky
I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing… — Louise Bourgeois
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it… — Max Planck
An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even… — Max Planck
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for… — Theodore Roosevelt
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. — Theodore Roosevelt
For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions… — Yves Saint Laurent
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous… — Gifford Pinchot
I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how… — Walt Disney
Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. — Theodore Roosevelt
Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to… — John C. Maxwell
Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity. — Tad R. Callister
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data.… — Christian Nestell Bovee
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it,… — Christian Nestell Bovee

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