Quotes on Should

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.

Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.

China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see.

Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science... This loosening of thinking seems to me to be the greatest blessing which modern science has given to us. For the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.

We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis, we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.