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• You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

  Bruce Mau

  Inspirational, Change, Growth

  "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Scott Kirsner, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2000.

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• Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

  Charles Scott

  Progress, Excited, States

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• Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Inspiration

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment”, Harmony

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• If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your mind.

  Richard Mitchell

  Children, Mind, Tasks

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• As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Expression, Might, Doe

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• We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.

  Toni Bentley

  Essentials, Ifs

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• The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each other; they do not share it with the tribe or with society. The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Love, Inspire, Soul

  Nathaniel Branden (1985). “Psychology of romantic love”, Bantam

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• Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Appreciation, Acceptance, Appreciate

  "Who Is Man?". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1965.

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• Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite that made the rest of the dream possible. And since no matter how thin I got, I was frightened that I could wake up tomorrow and be fat again, the rest of the dream was forever ten or twenty pounds away.

  Geneen Roth

  Dream, Men, Forever

  Geneen Roth (1997). “Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment”, p.9, Penguin

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• The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

  Saul Alinsky

  Possession, Ideology

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.12, Vintage

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• Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Order, Survival, Inbreds

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.3, Univ of California Press

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• For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

  Warren Farrell

  Psychology, Survival, Firsts

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Europe, Funny Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.

  Jack Canfield

  Adventure, Risk, Comfort

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt (2012). “The Power of Focus Tenth Anniversary Edition: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Confidence and Certainty”, p.246, Health Communications, Inc.

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• The leaders in business and
  industry all have at least one thing
  in common - they are mentally
  strong. Mental strength is an
  absolute prerequisite for a
  successful, commercial career in
  our fast moving world. Although
  there are relatively few people
  who develop mental strength,
  anyone can.

  Bob Proctor

  Strong, Moving, Successful

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 21, 2011

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• Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.

  Vera Wang

  Shopping, Luxury, Sensual

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• The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Inspirational, Attitude, Acceptance

  Richard Saul Wurman (2009). “33: understanding change & the change in understanding”

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• Study and discipline are the prerequisite to any form of accomplishment. Unfortunately however, studying is much like paying taxes for most of us - we only do it when we have to. If you're serious about developing greatness in your life, study the lives of great men and women and follow their advice!

  Bob Proctor

  Greatness, Men, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 22, 2012

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• Failure is not an option. Failure is a prerequisite.

  David Zinczenko

  Failure, Failure Is Not An Option

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• Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

  Rollo May

  Love, Self, People In Your Life

  "Man's Search for Himself".

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• Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

  Jean Rostand

  Book, Reading, Forgettable

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• ...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they are drawn firmly together by the crown of prayer. This endless, unstirring calm of prayer... can neither be achieved nor consummated without these virtues. And likewise virtues are the prerequisite foundation of prayer and cannot be effected without it.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Prayer, Perfect

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• ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which a State will inevitably vanish. Or - that failing - nobody will give a damn.

  Kerry Thornley

  Spring, Government, Order

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• Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

  Janet Poppendieck

  Democracy, Charity, Erode

  Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.255, Penguin

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• Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.

  Millard Sheets

  Love Life, Clarity Of Purpose, Color

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