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Quotes About Indispensable

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.
~ Jan Koum
What you're trying to create is a certain kind of an indispensable presence, where your position in the narrative is not contingent on whether somebody likes you, or somebody knows you, or somebody's a friend, or somebody's being generous to you.
~ Kerry James Marshall
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
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.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
The child stars who emerged from Disney boot camp and dominated pop culture in the late '90s and '00s are not only still around but also have spawned successors who have proven even more indispensable to the business of music, movies, and television.
~ Tom Junod
The incarnation is the indispensable basis for union with Christ.
~ Robert Letham
So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.
~ Robert Louis Stephenson
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
After reading through George Washington's papers, Marshall pronounced Hamilton "the greatest man (or one of the greatest men) that had ever appeared in the United States."31 Marshall considered Hamilton and Washington the two indispensable founders, and it therefore came as no surprise that Jefferson looked askance at the chief justice as "the Federalist serpent in the democratic Eden of our administration."32
~ Ron Chernow
a wish is not a fact. Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true. Utility and truth are two entirely different things.
~ Leo Strauss
People who were helpful and indispensable were loved. Weren't they?
~ Libba Bray
The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.
~ Helen Thomas
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Existen etapas en las que es útil, o necesario, y, quizá, hasta indispensable. Exactamente lo mismo es aplicable a las teorías que intentan entender los filtros de la Realidad: apegarse a una explicación es un obstáculo, pero en ciertas etapas es útil y hasta necesario contar con una teoría, siempre y cuando ésta abra caminos y amplíen el entendimiento.
~ Dr. Jacobo Grinberg Zylberbaum
We live in a culture that celebrates activity. We collapse our sense of who we are into what we do for a living. The public performance of busyness is how we demonstrate to one another that we are important. The more people see us as tired, exhausted, over-stretched, the more they think we must be somehow … indispensable. That we matter.
~ Joan Halifax
He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable...'very few things matter and nothing matters very much
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.
~ Tom Waits
The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'
~ Iggy Pop
One who is indispensable has in his power all the lords and masters of the earth.
~ Robert Michels
Become indispensable to everyone on this journey. Then you will have reasons to go everywhere and hear everything and no one will question your presence
~ Robin Hobb
time. I think I know how the mother of a teenage daughter must feel. Like an indispensable annoyance.
~ Lolly Winston
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
~ Andre Gide
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.
~ Jeanne Moreau