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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.