Needs Quotes - Page 183

The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

It is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more jobs.

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.

Militarism is the most energy-intensive, entropic activity of humans, since it converts stored energy and materials directly into waste and destruction without any useful intervening fulfillment of basic human needs. Ironically, the net effect of military, as opposed to civilian, expenditures is to increase unemployment and inflation.

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Remember that you are always exactly where you need to be, experiencing what you need to experience so that you can learn what you must learn in order to become the person you need to be to create everything you want for your life. Always.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe, with the proper things around me, and everything I need as a performer; band, and all that kind of stuff, I still feel to this day there's no one that can touch me. Still.

Give what you can, take what you need.

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.