Requisite Quotes
134 quotes by 102 authors
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Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
— Berkeley Breathed
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal…
— Robert Pozen
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A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand -…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
— Benjamin Haydon
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We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
— Samuel Johnson
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
— Herbert Spencer
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the…
— Milton Friedman
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The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the…
— Lytton Strachey
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
— Samuel Johnson
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...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and…
— James Madison
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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
— Oscar Wilde
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in…
— Thomas Huxley
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The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here…
— Paul Strand
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In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius…
— Daniel Dennett
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It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that…
— Thomas A. Edison
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