I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.
Necessity is a guardian in Nature.
Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.
I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.
The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and you perform a hundred other tasks, but if you have not performed the task you were sent for, it is as if you have done nothing at all. So people have come into the world for particular tasks, and that is our purpose. If we don't perform it, we will have done nothing.
Players like me, we did something of a thankless job. You don't show a hard tackle or stripping someone of possession in slow motion on the big screen. But if you add it all up, I was always the one that the coaches wrote down automatically on the lineup card.
I am essential to the theater.
The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world
You need to make sure that you are where you think you are indispensable. And dedicate your task to that.
I opened Union Square Cafe when I was just 27 years old, and my first hope was simply that it would stay in business. My higher hope was that in its lifetime, it might grow to play an essential role in the lives of its stakeholders.
Necessity does everything well.
Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
It's hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you know, you're picking up dirty clothes and you're doing all the tasks that the players - that nobody else wants to do.
I'm the ultimate rock 'n' roll sideman. But that doesn't mean a 'sideman' isn't vital.
I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.
