Needs Quotes - Page 184

Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

In most cases, I don't know how much, I cannot say if it's ninety nine percent or eighty percent, but the problem with incestuous relationships is that they often come from frustration. And from need of power.

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.

What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That's Weird.

When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.

To be successful, you only need one person to believe!

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

Humans need to be a multiplanet species.

I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

I need to work to feel well.

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.