Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.
In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
Only he who has a different visual opening can see the world in another way and can pass on to his neighbour the information required to broaden his field of view. . . let us get used to looking at the world through the eyes of others.
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs.
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.
I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.
You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.
Donald Trump would never belong to a church that required a ten percent hit. He's too smart.
A light here required a shadow there.
Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would be required to stage a similar production about Islam. The project is unimaginable—not only in Beirut, Baghdad, or Jerusalem, but in New York City.
All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39. 37 inchessec.
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.