Needs Quotes - Page 208

I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

There are almost no worldly signals reminding us to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder, and to connect to that place from which everything is possible.

You need only examine your present situation to discover unlimited resources and opportunities.

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.

We need to find ways to communicate with each other.

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.

Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.

I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.

When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.

Before all, you need to know who you are, what you believe in, and what you stand for. Be how you want to be received.

[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois' need to feel that he is not bourgeois.

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.