Requires Quotes

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

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

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?