Needs Quotes - Page 186

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.

Never allow a child to spend all of his allowance. Insist that he set aside a certain amount of money every week and put it in a safe place, where you can get it if you need to buy beer.

All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need.

On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

No need to feel brave or confident; just behave that way.

Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

To write, you need to find what you love.

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

We're learning lessons from Africa. And the lesson that we need to learn is, how do we straighten our backs up in the face of these oligarchs and plutocrats who are trying to snatch the best of our democracy away?

I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”

We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.

I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.

I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.

And, as you know, the present moment is where ALL your power is. A reminder I need regularly. Maybe you too.

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

Sears had layers and layers of people it didn't need. It was very bureaucratic. It was slow to think. And there was an established way of thinking. If you poked your head up with a new thought, the system kind of turned against you. It was everything in the way of a dysfunctional big bureaucracy that you would expect.

What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us into uncertainty for its own sake And holds us flush there until we begin to love it And have to begin again? What is it within our own lives we decline to live Whenever we find it, making our days unendurable, And nights almost visionless? I still don't know yet, but I do it.

Goodbys always make my throat hurt... I need more hellos.

The need itself is not the call.

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.