Requisite Quotations

Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.

The building blocks of mathematical thinking are requisite for more advanced conceptualization. If a student is not ready to move on, then the teacher must take time to assist that learner.

Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that.

Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

With the merger action in North Carolina, we have cleared the last hurdle in the regulatory approval process. With all requisite approvals in hand, we intend to close on April 1, less than 11 months from our merger announcement.

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

I have concluded that this is appropriate for a number of reasons related specifically to THG. These include uncertainty at this time as to whether suspensions based on pre-October 6 tests could be imposed during the 2003 season with the requisite competitive fairness for all 32 teams.

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

There is a direct relation between requisite stock, standard of living, and technology in use at a given time. We therefore offer a different approach to studying use of finite resources, one that is more directly related to environmental concerns than are the discussions found in the economics literature.

Having sufficient equity . . . is now an essential requirement because it is no longer possible to secure cancellation insurance cover of the requisite magnitude for an event the size of the FIFA World Cup.

He wasn't on anybody's radar for this year. He sort of made his first impression on the snowboarding circuit at the Gravity Games (last winter) when he landed a cab 1080. That's the requisite trick of this year's Olympics.

Matt Leinart's L.A. duplex looks more like a Chuck E. Cheese safe house than a millionaire jock's crash pad. There's the requisite leather couch and flat-screen television, but the rest of the ground floor is bare except for a pile of Nick Jr. DVDs, a high chair, and a SpongeBob SquarePants director's chair.

The armored battle group that will deploy brings important qualities of extensive training, experience and hard-edge combat capability. It is not the case, as is often implied, that there are 130,000 U.S. troops that could take on this task, ... In fact, fewer than a third of U.S. forces in Iraq have the requisite combat capability, and of those even fewer have the armored capability that is needed.

The December meeting and their plan is pretty important. If they don't show the requisite amount of creativity, the market is not going to treat them kindly.

Washington was under obligation to see that NSG countries also undertake requisite steps for similar cooperation with India.

We have decided to invest in India in a big way to continue our success story, thanks to the availability of the requisite talent here. The hardware unit is intended to first meet the domestic demand and target the export market subsequently.

Every political party has the right to demonstrate, but at the same time I have requested the state government to provide requisite security,

There's a growing realization that the Mac community is growing. It's a significant enough population...even if it's 5 percent to 10 percent of the total corporate deployment, that it makes it a requisite community to communicate with the rest of the organization.

It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.

The faculty of self-deception, essential requisite for anyone wanting to guide others

I'm definitely kind of a black sheep when it comes to international students. Most students get the requisite Christmas break and summer visits when they go home. Not only do I get those but I also have family members in the United States so I get to see my them more often than others.

However, it did not happen then as the requisite permission from the Indian Navy could not be obtained due to strategic reasons. After the tsunami, he contacted us and we thought it was imperative for the islands now.

The findings from this review, I hope, will provide Congress with the requisite information to make an informed decision regarding the national security implications of a Dubai-backed company owning and operating terminals at six U.S. ports.

The Department of Justice is also stating that Microsoft is failing to provide requisite technical information.

So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere

Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood

Whereas the degrees of rationality vary and some minds are distinguished over others, these clerks, if not convinced of what the Pasha has given them, must turn to their associates with the problem, and if all see an excess or shortcoming in the matter, then they should turn to the Pasha and present the requisite information.

Experiment to me Is every one I meet If it contain a Kernel? The Figure of a Nut Presents upon a Tree Equally plausibly, But Meat within, is requisite To Squirrels, and to Me

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.