Glenn Gould
Pianist
"Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness."
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Indispensable
54 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"The cemetery is full of indispensable people."
Martin Buber
Philosopher
"What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You."
Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it."
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"Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it."
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"Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time."
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"A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man""
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"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say."
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"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for."
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"We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable."
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"You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality."
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"Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need."
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"Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation."
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"Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours."
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"Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!"
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"Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character."
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"Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable."
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"Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before."
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"If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy."
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