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Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves — Samuel Johnson
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. — Samuel Johnson
Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the… — Thomas Paine
Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering… — Sophia Loren
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you… — Heinrich Heine
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in… — Socrates
Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination. — Sigmund Freud
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence… — Tom Robbins
The creative process requires chaos before form emerges. — Marilyn Ferguson
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian. — Harold Wilson
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. — Lionel Trilling
Martial music has sudden and strongly marked transitions from one note to another which that style of music requires; while in that which is intended… — Joshua Reynolds
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person — David Hume
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time… — Nathaniel Branden
Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such… — Eugene Delacroix
Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge. — Rollo May
Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new… — Jack Canfield
It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the… — Jack Canfield
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. — Harold Rosenberg
The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to… — Origen
Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase. — Tom Coburn
Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds… — Jeffrey Kluger
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks. — Bruce Schneier
Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires. — Bill Toomey

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