#demands

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#achievements #act #average #demands #down

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality. ↗

— Victor Garber

#demands #different #different aspects #muscles #personality

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#ending #i #just #know #movie

Life demands much. Give more. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#experiences #giving #life #living #living-life-to-the-fullest

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#back #been #century #demands #director

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. ↗

— Elizabeth Janeway

#beings #demands #efforts #existence #fragmented

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#alone #annihilation #any #believing #belongs

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position. ↗

— Carl Karcher

#because #been #company #demands #desire

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. ↗

— Murray Kempton

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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#capricious #demands #discipline #easy #enough