To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.
All art requires courage.
Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.
Sometimes you go to a film and well, you are not very concentrated. In reading, you have to concentrate, to spend the time it requires in order to feel the experience of the work. You have to put all of yourself there to experience something new and to feel and perceive an atmosphere that is unprecedented.
To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.
Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.
Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance
I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my being. It’s a kind of self-analysis that requires a balance between the rational and the intuited.
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.
Love requires imagination more than experience.
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted. . . Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.
What I believe. . . about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writingspeaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.
It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by.
Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To not only learn but also effectively implement investment lessons requires a disciplined, often contrary, and long-term-oriented investment approach. It requires a resolute focus on risk aversion rather than maximizing immediate returns, as well as an understanding of history, a sense of financial market cycles, and, at times, extraordinary patience.