#requires

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#boy #experience #good #needs #practice

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#abuse #against #care #chicanery #democracy

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#democracy #escaping #first #first step #full

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#achieve #case #dancing #depth #doing

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#genius #like #marriage #monogamy #requires

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. ↗

— Alban Berg

#also #composers #disciples #enthusiasm #feeling

It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#die #more #requires #suffer #than

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. ↗

— Gail Devers

#alive #all things #anything #belief #believe