Needs Quotes - Page 229

We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.

The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

Tradition is something you can't bottle.You can't buy it at the corner store.But it is there to sustain you when you need it most.I've called upon it time and time again.And so have countless other Michigan athletes and coaches.There is nothing like it.I hope it never dies.

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

For a fledging democratic system to succeed, we need citizens who understand the procedures, believe in democratic rules and get personally involved.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.

Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on

My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.

He who believes in nothing still needs a girl to believe in him.

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

You don't need other people to affirm that you're a valuable person.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.