“ The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success. ”
- Maxwell Maltz- Copy
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“ It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. ”
- Ivan Goncharov- Copy
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“ We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people. ”
- George Lincoln Rockwell- Copy
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“ Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ To me, Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world. ”
- Meyer London- Copy
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“ The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous. ”
- Margaret Fontey- Copy
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“ It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that hold the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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“ Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
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“ Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
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“ It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character. ”
- Alfred Marshall- Copy
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“ What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction. ”
- Chuck Palahniuk- Copy
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“ Should is an ordinary, everyday word — except when it is used to indicate an order that may not be refused. Then should becomes a finger waving under the nose. This imperative says: "Don't you dare deviate by as much as a million of a millimeter or you'll be sorry… ”
- Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose DeWolf- Copy
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“ At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully. ”
- Blanche Lincoln- Copy
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“ I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that spark yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do. ”
- Steve Kerr- Copy
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“ The world has changed greatly since the end of the Cold War. It is imperative that our security priorities reflect these changes. We have witnessed recent cooperation between the United States and Russia that is unparalleled since World War II. However, September 11, 2001, proved without question that a new set of threats to this nation exist and that we must be prepared to deal with them. ”
- Allen Boyd- Copy
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“ The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause — it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. ”
- Harold Rosenberg- Copy
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“ It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content… it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. ”
- Rene Daumal- Copy
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“ If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another… ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
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“ What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
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