Prerequisites Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Being a sinner does not disqualify you from following Jesus. It's a prerequisite.

  Andy Stanley

  Jesus, Doe, Following

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• The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Receiving, Needs

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.17, Penguin

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• The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Escorting, Chiefs, Politeness

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• Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

  Eyedea

  Storm, Gains

  Song: Liquid Sovereignty

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• Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Soul, Three, Genius

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• In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Order, Unity, Body

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Character, Foundation, Virtue

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

  Max Bill

  Thinking, Train Of Thought, Ideas

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• I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.

  Jerry Doyle

  Wall, Growing Up, Flying

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• Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

  David Sobel

  Nature, Sneakers, Clothes

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• We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Truth, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.69, Chartwell

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• If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire the fundamentals of the timeless principles of academic school, which is a prerequisite for the development of your Uniqueness as an Artist.

  Igor Babailov

  Dream, Ambition, School

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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 prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

  Joel Osteen

  Love, People, Healthy

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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