Quotes on Should

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.

What is failure? We can’t possibly know what failure is. Most people think they do, but that’s because they’re judging how their lives should be and what they need it to be: a success. Who is to say what’s a success and what’s a failure? Do your best. Trust. Relax. Do your best. Enjoy yourself.

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.