Needs Quotes - Page 45

I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things. I can scarcely refrain from suspecting some ancient, diffused magnetism; a call from the center of things; a dim, almost lost memory, or perhaps a presentiment, pointless in so puny a being, of a universal syntax.

I would rather quit while I was ahead. There’s no need in overstaying your welcome.

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if we’re to have a future worth living.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking about the economy is to imagine it as a living organism.

You know at this point you have everything you need. It's available to you from the inside and you see you are supported in many ways. You realize that there is more to this dimension, to this reality, than you have seen before. You see you are being taken care of, you are being loved, you are being looked after. All that's needed is to go inside, become still and listen.

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.

Occasionally pick up speed-for 2 minutes, tops-then settle back into your former pace. Sometimes this is all you need to snap out of a mental and physical funk. Pick a downhill stretch if you can, and really lengthen your stride.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.

When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers. This is America, speak English.