Necessity Quotes

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Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance. — Robert Fripp
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials. — Diane von Furstenberg
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out… — Phyllis George
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if… — Emma Goldman
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity… — Emma Goldman
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. — Bill Cosby
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. — Stephen Covey
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without… — Leonardo da Vinci
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. — Leonardo da Vinci
There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You… — Sloane Crosley
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great… — Theodore Dalrymple
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. — Daniel Defoe
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity. — Democritus
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely… — Emily Dickinson
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. — Thomas A. Edison
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. — Albert Einstein
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Make yourself necessary to somebody. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is the recognition of necessity. — Friedrich Engels
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. — Arthur Erickson
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. — Euripides

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