Quotes About Necessity

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.