Needs Quotes

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values

When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.

To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion.

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.

In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.

During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

Divas need their furs!

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

No matter how confident you are in your own abilities, you can't build and run a business alone. You need your army pulling you ahead, rather than holding you back.

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.

Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.

Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don't try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation.

All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

All God's children need traveling shoes.

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

I think the most critical needs of the African-American communities aren't being addressed primarily because of decisions being made by Republican Congressional leaders.

Come back, paragraphs. America needs you.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

We know how to get all of the energy we need without using dirty or dangerous fuel sources. It is no longer a question of whether we can - but of whether we will