Best demand & ability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.”

“I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.”

Believe Moments Happiness Desire I Believe Ability Destiny Demand Cease Permanent

Author:Madame de Stael

“The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.”

Needs Artist Ability Talent Color Demand Appetite Alertness

Book:Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989

Source: Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989

“Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands.”

Important Ideas Seems Ability Materials Integrity Demand Originals Important Things Intuition Guides Compromise Realization Gaps Conception Vitality Sculptors Original Ideas Carving

Author:Barbara Hepworth

“Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them.”

Source: The Sons of Osiris: A Side Degree: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection

“High SQ demands the most intense personal integrity. It demands that we stand open to experience, that we recapture our ability to see life and others afresh, as though through the eyes of a child, to learn how to tap into our intuition and visualization, as a powerful means of using our inner knowing to “make a difference.” It demands that we cease to seek refuge in what we know and constantly explore and learn from what we do not know. It demands that we live the questions rather than the answers.”

“At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.”

Heart Ability Demand Logic Marketing Absence

Author:Jay Samit

“The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.”

Inspirational Doe Ability Depends Demand Merit Supply And Demand

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the cladding of sensory appearance and discern the abstract construction underneath - not always on demand, and not infallibly, but often enough and insightfully enough to shape the human condition. Our powers of analogy allow us to apply ancient neural structures to newfound subject matter, to discover hidden laws and systems in nature, and not least, to amplify the expressive power of language itself.”

Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

“Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.”

Ifs Giving Two Action Force Loses Ability Enemy Conditions Fronts Demand Draws South Defeat Commit Contribution Being The Best Zone Division Offensive Units Tanks

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your mind (with or without one). Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

People Knows Mind Values Ability Pay Victory Demand Including Defeat Sweetest

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.”

People Want Needs Giving Children Energy Parent Born Ability Emotional Demand Normal Spring Brilliant All Time Miserable Right Thing Vary Reserved Loner Emotional Energy

Author:Stella Chess

“The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.”

Men May Ability Issues Greater Rights Security Students Building Victory Mets Demand Excellence University Administration Files Dean Rifles

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.”

Thinking Needs Form Humanity Term Ability Depends Demand Behavior Universal Absolutes Notion Conviction Transcendence Absolute Power

Author:Talal Asad

“Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.”

Play Ability Audience Demand Elements Theater Gross

Author:Laura Ziskin

“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.”

People Thinking Way Wells Two Ability Trouble Safe Demand Labor Tragedy Luck Brilliant Absence Guts Pessimism Smarter Recognizing Live Well Happy People

Book:Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

Source: Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

“The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility over specialization. With such an ethic, consumers would demand a shift toward more timeless design, away from fast-moving trends. Clothes could become more versatile in terms of what they can be used for, their ability to fit differently shaped bodies and to be altered.”

“There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.”

Ability Struggle Rights Talent Media Demand Equal Victim Treatment Equal Rights Parasites Preferential Treatment

Author:Thomas Sowell

“What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.”

Use Values Ability Demand Photographer Revolutionary Rescue Caption

Book:Understanding Brecht (New Edition)

Source: Understanding Brecht (New Edition)

“The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.”

Ability Amount Demand Direct Difficulty Ratios

Author:Earl Nightingale

“Times are completely different now. If you're a brand new artist with a record you want to release to the masses, I would suggest you try and get it hot yourself first. This way you can create your own demand so you'll end up having the option of demanding what you want if you do decide to sign with a label. If you don't and you still get on hot on your own, you then have the ability to reap all of your profits.”

Ifs Way Want Trying Firsts Stills Different Ends Artist Ability Records Demand Mass Hot Profit What You Want Release Brands Labels Reap Brand New New Artists

Author:Ashanti

“I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people's experiences.”

People Thinking Helping Individual Ability Fiction Responsibility Special Demand

Author:Ben H. Winters

“We need each other to do things that we can't do for ourselves. If we are intimately connected with each other, we just give things to each other; if we don't know each other we find another way to handle it. If you think about it, each according to his or her abilities and each according to his or her needs is sort of the same thing as supply and demand.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Needs Giving Ability Demand Connected Handle Another Way Supply And Demand We Need Each Other

Author:David Graeber

“Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.”

Faces Ability Honesty Demand Oneself

Author:Starhawk

“Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.”

Humans Difficult Challenges Ability Love Is Honesty Demand Tests Tested Wrecks

Author:Junot Diaz

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