Demands Quotes
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Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.
Aristotle -
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
Alvar Aalto
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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
Albert Bandura -
The demands they have made could not be met without great damage to jobs and industry, to essential services ... to pensioners and children.
Jack Straw -
The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Whenever I go to see her, she recharges my energy and enables me to cope with the many challenges and demands of my busy life.
Prince Andrew -
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.
Lao Tzu -
It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.
Elena Ferrante -
The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
Confucius -
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
Wilfred Burchett -
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge.
Albert Bandura -
I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.
Ernst Junger
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Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.
Napoleon Hill -
The nicest people fall in love indiscriminately ... while under the influence of that pre-eminently selfish lunacy they may make the most outrageous demands upon their friends with no other excuse than their painful need.
Margery Allingham -
You just want to play. You don't think about the money, how many followers you've got on Instagram. You just want to make it. You don't understand the demands, how intense it is at times - the scrutiny you're going to get.
Ashley Cole -
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Confucius -
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
Albert Camus -
When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
Mahatma Gandhi -
As the movement matures, a lot of us are starting to look at that conundrum. If we feel like [the media] didn’t say what we were talking about, maybe we need to also think about how we can be more intentional about messaging our actual demands.
Eugene Puryear -
The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.
Gaston Bachelard -
Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
Alan Autry