Needs Quotes

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.

Success is not for those who want it, nor those who need it, but for those who are utterly determined to seize it--whatever it takes.

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide.

The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

Briefs need limitations and invitations

The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

The healthiest people were those who didn't spend money that they hadn't earned, to buy things that they didn't need, to impress people that they didn't like.

When we're in touch with our body, we're attuned to our intuition, needs, and desires and will be in the best position to make evolutionary choices for our health and wellbeing.

You have all the power you could possibly need to create a new reality - a reality of vibrant health and wellbeing.

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

There needs to be more variety on television so young girls growing up don't feel pressured to look one specific way. Tall, thin, curvy, short, whatever you are, you are beautiful.

Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.

One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.

I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament.

America desperately needs a moral rebirth. We need to implore God's blessings on our country and ask Him to forgive our sinfulness and restore our moral perspective.

I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.

Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.