Top 1200 Requires Quotes & Sayings

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more money to get them [a] better education. It requires better textbooks, it requires a vision, it requires a determination, but it's not very expensive to do that anyway.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.

As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.

We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.

The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.

The reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

Becoming an effective security professional requires more than knowing how to deploy and configure technology. It requires combining security theory with practical, hands-on experience.

Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.

What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur.

Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

Every action being taken against terrorists requires court order, requires scrutiny.

You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.