Top 78 Precondition Quotes
#1. The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. *
John Berger
#2. Dentistry is a precondition to love at first sight. When your eyes meet she beams with happiness, but when you smile back she shows her true reflexes.
Bauvard
#3. Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue ... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.
Dinesh D'Souza
#4. And this was the main precondition, that anything might be something else. Once I'd accepted that, it followed that I might be mad, or that someone might think me mad. How could I say for certain that I wasn't, if I couldn't say for certain that a curtain wasn't a mountain range?
Susanna Kaysen
#5. Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.
George Osborne
#6. Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.
Rita Dove
#7. Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.
Donald Barthelme
#8. But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.
Patricia Hewitt
#9. Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.
Dennis Kucinich
#10. Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace.
Agnivesh
#11. I am reassured to know that the straightness of my grain is not a precondition of usefulness to God. And I am humbled to see that out of the twistedness of my wounds, he designs for me a special place of service.
Robert D. Lupton
#12. We cannot leap into world government through one quick step ... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#13. It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.
Terence McKenna
#14. I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.
Quentin Blake
#15. Then as now, demonization of the victim is the necessary precondition for genocide.
Jonathan Kirsch
#16. One physiological precondition is indispensible for there to be art: intoxication, or the feeling of fullness and increasing strenth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
C. G. Jung
#18. Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.
Heinrich Boll
#19. Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues
Jonathon Porritt
#21. There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being lazy - having plenty of time to think - may actually be a precondition for achieving a great deal.
Richard Koch
#22. The precondition for solving a problem is having a clear idea on how to
solve it.
Eraldo Banovac
#23. Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
Walter Darby Bannard
#25. And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.
Richard Morris
#26. Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.
Dalai Lama
#27. In technology, failure is often a precondition to future successes, while prosperity can be the beginning of the end,
Jacquie McNish
#28. Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creating
new ideas.
Eraldo Banovac
#29. In psychotherapy it is the myth of knowing this why as precondition for change which defeats its own purpose.
Paul Watzlawick
#30. The Herald Tribune headed the story, "PRESIDENT SAYS PRAYER IS PART OF DEMOCRACY." The implication in such a pronouncement, emanating from the seat of government, is that religious faith is a condition, or even a precondition, of the democratic life.
E.B. White
#32. Most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition.
Haruki Murakami
#33. In the technology sector failure is often a precondition to future successes, while prosperity can be the beginning of the end. If the rise and fall of BlackBerry teaches us anything it is that the race for innovation has no finish line, and that winners and losers can change places in an instant.
Jacquie McNish
#34. For, just as love embodies the life of all virtues and expresses the inmost substance of all holiness, humility is the precondition and basic presupposition for the genuineness, the beauty, and the truth of all virtue.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand
#36. But had Minkowski and Einstein not recognized it long before us, our schizophrenic children would have taught us that space-time is a unity that precedes any separate understanding of either category; just as grasping this unity is a precondition for understanding causality.
Bruno Bettelheim
#37. Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.
Ernst Mach
#38. Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand
#39. Implementation of a knowledge based economy is a significant precondition for environmental and social sustainability.
Eraldo Banovac
#40. Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
Alvin Toffler
#41. A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.
Gerhard Schroder
#42. The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'
Kai Bird
#43. Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.
Lewis Mumford
#44. Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.
C. G. Jung
#45. Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge.
Eraldo Banovac
#46. Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.
Ayn Rand
#47. The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.
Karl Marx
#48. The second precondition is that the network be plastic, capable of adopting new configurations.
Steven Johnson
#49. Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.
Alice Miller
#50. Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.
James Q. Wilson
#51. If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.
Phillip C. McGraw
#52. Calming allows us to rest, and resting is a precondition for healing.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#53. Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.
James H. Billington
#54. The precondition of success and entry to the top politics is primarily one's will - that is, making one's own decisions, because it means having to leave your home or move your family, quit social networking and build new contacts, [since] central governments are seated in capitals.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#55. I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
Yo-Yo Ma
#56. Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run
each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away
each a small separation, a small distancing.
Lillian B. Rubin
#57. High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Christopher Hitchens
#58. Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one.
James Shapiro
#59. Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.
Leo Baeck
#60. Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
Kofi Annan
#61. It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.
Dustin Moskovitz
#63. For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Christopher Lasch
#65. The precondition to freedom is security.
Rand Beers
#66. Despite every advancement, language remains the defining nexus of our humanity; it is where our knowledge and hope lie. It is the precondition of human tenderness, mightier than the sword but also infinitely more subtle and ultimately more urgent.
Andrew Solomon
#67. Cosmopolitan discourse is in a way a response to the issue of solidarity. Although the precondition for solidarity can be a _community_, solidarity requires more intentional commitment and performance than does community.
Namsoon Kang
#68. Doctors treat diseases, but they also treat people, and this precondition of their professional existence sometimes pulls them in two directions at once.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#69. Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
Bobbe Sommer
#70. Compatibility, on this view, is an achievement of love, not a precondition for love.
John Armstrong
#71. Reichenbach, I believe, made it a precondition for doing scientific epistemology that the very notion of 'Jewish science' be philosophically inadmissible. The Nazi racial laws were not only a crime against humanity, they were a crime against philosophical principle.
Ronald N. Giere
#72. In fact the taboo
against killing and eating one's relatives is the most fundamental
precondition if people are to live together and cooperate on a
daily basis.
Marvin Harris
#73. An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
Murray Bookchin
#74. I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
Iain Banks
#75. Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.
Eraldo Banovac
#76. The cultivation of a willingness to defy, debunk, or just plain old disappoint one's parents, that is the absolute precondition, now more than ever, for intellectual and emotional freedom.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
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