Needs Quotes - Page 200

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day.

The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to where they are consumed. These economies will contribute little to the greenhouse effect and will survive the exhaustion of oil.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.

Oh, how we need to wake up to the fact that the Holy Spirit’s blessing and power is the key to everything.

I think we need equal wages which are living wages.

We, of course, need to improve our failing healthcare system, where costs are skyrocketing and 1 in 3 Americans doesn't have the healthcare that they need. Can't afford it, even with their insurance.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

Pause and remember - The only person you need to believe in you is - you!

I realized I need a certain kind of chemistry and a certain kind of look to be into someone, and like 1 percent of the population has it.

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

We need to increase our military spending. We need to deal with a no- fly zone in Syria, a safe zone.

We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.

The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation.

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

New ideas often need old buildings.

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.