Requirement Quotes
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
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More Requirement Quotes
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
seth godin— "Competition as a crutch" Seth's Blog (2012-07-16)
“Richard Feynman presciently stated... that ‘There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom’. ...within this vast room ... there will be a requirement for communication.”
stephen bush— Bush, S.F., Nanoscale Communication Networks, 2010, 308 pages, Artech House; 1 edition (February 28, 2010) ISBN-10: 1608070034, ISBN-13: 978-1608070039
The grand manner consists of four elements: subject or theme, concept, structure, and style. The first requirement, fundamental to all the others, is that the subject and the narrative be grandiose, such as battles, heroic actions, and religious themes.
— Quoted in Giovanni Pietro Bellori Lives of the Modern Painters (1672).
Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence."
Leonard Bernstein— The Cambridge Companion to Conducting p.16.
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
Norman Cousins— Editorial (1971)
If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
john kenneth galbraith— Chapter 5, p. 137
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.
walter gropius— As quoted in Paul Klee, 1879-1940 (2000) by Susanna Partsch, p. 47
It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.
edward jenks— Chapter XVIII, Reform In The Criminal Law, p. 332
Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want
richard koch— p.164 (The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1999))
According to Islamic tradition (sunnah), marriage has been deemed to be an essential requirement. Celibacy has been regarded as a malevolent condition fraught with evils.
— Chapter 1, Sexual Ethics in Islam and in the Western World. Baztab News (2007/08/10). Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
— Sexual Ethics in Islam and in the Western World. al-islam.org.
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The chief requirement of the good life... is to live without any image of oneself.
iris murdoch— The Bell (2001), ch. 9, p. 119. (1958)
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale— Notes on Hospitals, 3rd Edition (1863), Preface
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
thorstein veblen— p.51 (The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899))
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
thorstein veblen— p.126 (The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899))
Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection.
fukuzawa yukichi— From Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese Women (1988), trans. Kiyooka Eiichi
A human being is seldom bothered with insufficient data; often the less he has the more willing he is to give a firm opinion; and man prefers some answer, even a wrong one, to the requirement that he dig deeper and find out the facts.
mark clifton— p. 49 (They'd Rather Be Right (1954))
Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.
felix frankfurter— Frank v. Maryland, 359 U.S. 360, 372 (1959); majority opinion in 5-4 ruling that allowed health inspectors to enter a private home without a search warrant (May 4, 1959).
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement – the number restriction (two and only two) – is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.
charles krauthammer— Column, March 17, 2006, "Pandora and Polygamy" at jewishworldreview.com.
A balanced-budget requirement implies is that government has the constitutional right to spend as much as it takes in; that government is permitted to waste however much revenue it can extract from wealth producers, and that the bums must merely bring into balance what was stolen (taxes) with what is squandered (spending).
ilana mercer— “Rand Paul: Action Hero, Or Political Performance Artist?” WorldNetDaily.com, March 1, 2013.
Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.
gerry spence— Ch. 14 : The Magical Weapon : Withholding Permission to Be Defeated, p. 160
When the US adopted a requirement for US citizens to prove their citizenship in order to get a job, I vowed I would never do so. I will never again be an employee in the US.
richard m. stallman—
One of the strangest disparities of history lies between the sense of abundance felt by older and simpler societies and the sense of scarcity felt by the ostensibly richer societies of today. Charles Péguy has referred to modern man’s feeling of “slow economic strangulation,” his sense of never having enough to meet the requirement which his pattern of life imposes on him. Standards of consumption which he cannot meet, and which he does not need to meet, come virtually in the guise of duties.
richard weaver— pp. 14-15 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.
richard weaver— pp. 14-15 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
A human being is seldom bothered with insufficient data; often the less he has the more willing he is to give a firm opinion; and man prefers some answer, even a wrong one, to the requirement that he dig deeper and find out the facts.
— p. 49 (They'd Rather Be Right (1954))
It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.
— Chapter XVIII, Reform In The Criminal Law, p. 332
A balanced-budget requirement implies is that government has the constitutional right to spend as much as it takes in; that government is permitted to waste however much revenue it can extract from wealth producers, and that the bums must merely bring into balance what was stolen (taxes) with what is squandered (spending).
— “Rand Paul: Action Hero, Or Political Performance Artist?” WorldNetDaily.com, March 1, 2013.
Law is the rule, principle, obligation or requirement of natural justice.
— Lysander Spooner, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1860)
There also must be no reasonable alternative to the targeted killing: meaning that the international law requirement of seeking another reasonable means of incapacitating the terrorist prior to a future attack has proved fruitless.
— Guiora, Amos N. (2008). Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 150. ISBN 0195340310.
Deference to popular opinion is one great source of bad writing, and is all the more disastrous because the deference is paid to some purely hypothetical requirement.
— George Henry Lewes, in The Writer, Volume 18, p.21
