Required Quotes

“I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.”

“Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules”

“You are not required to perform like them, you are required to perform like you.”

“Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it required.”

“That’s why people use terms like flow or effortless to describe writing that they regard as really superb. They’re not saying effortless in terms of it didn’t seem like the writer spent any work. It simply requires no effort to read it — the same way listening to an incredible storyteller talk out loud requires no effort to pay attention. Whereas when you’re bored, you’re conscious of how much effort is required to pay attention.”

“The most popular form of atheism is a philosophy called naturalism. Naturalism is the view that science and science alone determines what exists. What exists is what our best scientific theories of the world require. If something is not required by our best scientific theories of the world, then it does not exist. But this is devastating for ethics because moral values are not required by science. Science is morally neutral. You cannot find moral values in a test tube. So it follows immediately, from the perspective of naturalism, that moral values do not really exist. They are just subjective illusions of human beings.”

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”

“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”

“The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.”