Quotes About Indispensable

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Quase todos nós gostamos de acreditar que somos imprescindíveis, que contribuímos com algo através da nossa existência, que esta não é inútil nem completamente indiferente. Quase todos nós gostamos de acreditar nisto, mas a maior parte sabe que não é assim... Tudo funcionaria da mesma maneira sem nós, porque somos comutáveis e substituíveis.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

I am one of those women with a regrettable tendency to take on the responsibilities of the world. Regrettable, because it leads to meddling in what's really none of my business and endless fretting that wears me out without accomplishing anything. I suppose I like to feel I'm indispensable, which nobody is. It's a form of egotism, a superiority complex, perhaps.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Elusive reality does not discourage Umpire Two. We don't have to fully perceive or understand the underlying nature of our world to negotiate it well. Our senses and reasoning powers evolved as they did because they work just fine in the everyday, nonphilosophical business of survival. Mental constructs of reality are imperfect, but indispensable, ways to organize the otherwise bewildering phenomena of the world.

En este mundo, nadie es indispensable salvo el enemigo

The war began in 1972. That was the year I awoke to a profound truth: no one on this earth is indispensable, except the enemy. ¶ Without an enemy, human beings are poor things indeed. Their lives are ordeals, crushed between insignificance and boredom. ¶ The enemy is the Savior. His mere existence is enough to revitalize humanity. Thanks to the enemy, that unfortunate accident called life becomes epic.

Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.

I want to play roles where my absence should be felt. It may not necessarily be a lead role, but my character should be crucial to the show.

Animals need food, water and shelter. We humans need all those things, but we need fire too.

There might be a charm in the black arts section of the library, but black earth magic used nasty ingredients—like indispensable people parts—and I wasn't going to go there.

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

The third threat to liberalism is that some people will remain both indispensable and undecipherable, but they will constitute a small and privileged elite of upgraded humans.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each

Mrs. Vandor said, with her eyes closed, I wouldn't make that kind of thing a habit. One wishes to be useful, but not indispensably so.

This is the model: Make others dependent on you. To get rid of you might spell disaster, even death, and your master dares not tempt fate by finding out. There are many ways to obtain such a position. Foremost among them is to possess a talent and creative skill that simply cannot be replaced.

If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a thousand facts they couldn't possibly recall. It's simply easier for them to place me where the questions are, where problems need solutions. (Alfred Gillette)

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

Whenever a leader tries to build job security by making himself indispensable to the organization, he in fact does the organization a disservice. Job security is too often based on someone's insecurity.

Generally making myself indispensable. I was ambitious in those days. It seems ridiculous now.

She'd once read out a comment she'd been given at her appraisal: You shouldn't believe that you're indispensable. Your role is to pass on your skills to others. 'Well