Greatly valuing his ability to read and write, he felt that words were indispensable to thinking: "Without words one cannot think, and it is thought that moves the world".
This will make people respect you, come to you when they need help, and to think of you as indispensable.
But everyone thought they were indispensable at the time, and that's a dangerous way to think about these guys.
Moreover, the ability to think quantitatively and reason analytically is an indispensable part of anyone's education.
"Even if he doesn't become a grandmaster, chess will teach him to think logically and improvise, as those are indispensable qualities in life," he said.
"Freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth," wrote Supreme Court legend, Louis Brandeis.
C.E.O.s don't like to think about succession, because it means contemplating the possibility that they're not indispensable.
Conservative educators consider drill indispensable to mastering the fundamentals; liberals think it embodies everything that made classrooms oppressive in the past.
According to Lewis, Humean supervenience faces only one serious challenge: objective chance, or propensity, a notion that Lewis thought was indispensable to science.
Local and national NGOs have long been thought of as indispensable to quick, effective and relevant emergency response, as well as critical development work.
