#necessity

Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all. ↗

— Lev Shestov

#philosophy #wisdom #men

A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#kindness #necessity #right-speech #speech #yoga

What kind of life can you have in a house without books? ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#boredom #dullness #inspiration #life #necessity

Necessity is the mother of taking chances. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mother #necessity #taking #taking chances

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#cold #correct #first #having #i

Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#again #being #choreographed #dance #doing

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it. ↗

— James Broughton

#absolute necessity #allowing #earliest #happen #invade

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#adapted #already #been #best #conviction

I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life. ↗

— Richard Chamberlain

#any #as far as #between #concerned #distinguish

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#boring #came #environment #fusion #got