When an interviewer asks him to look back, he politely refuses to discuss his headaches: the run-ins with two governments (of Senegal and France), the necessities of self-financing and shipping film overseas for processing, the long gaps between productions.
Again, if he was like me, he was far from anticipating the hardest, most precious lessons taught at Harvard Law: the finitude of one's own powers; the twin, paradoxical necessities of self-reliance and interdependence; and the humanity that comes when one finds oneself a long way from perfection, and then finds new ways of striving.
Furthermore, "the act, justified by the necessity of self defense, must be limited by that necessity, and kept clearly within it".
Family, patients, music, art are about remembering and listening to stories, about the necessity of self-forgiveness.
Burdened with credit card debt and a house losing value by the day, they are learning the necessity of self-denial for themselves and their three children.
Unique factor combinations of building specifics, user profiles and external influences lead to the necessity of self-adaptive systems for personal comfort.
But at its most persuasive, "First Person" is an aria on the necessity of self-invention, on the loops and lacunas of memory and the bullish inadequacy of all language.
The secretary of state, Daniel Webster, said the British could justify sinking the ship by proving "a necessity of self-defense, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation".
Pressfield also explains that we need to find out who we already are if we're going to unlock the creativity within us, nudging us towards the practical necessity of self-discovery and how to get there.
The remaining books are philosophical discussions on themes often treated by Seneca, such as what may rightly be asked of the gods, the necessity of self-knowledge for public men, and the Stoic doctrine of freedom.
In 1810 Jefferson wrote in a letter that circumstances "sometimes occur" when "officers of high trust" must "assume authorities beyond the law" in keeping with the "salus populi…, the laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger".
