Needs Quotes

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything.

I was able to put something back. I was able to be of help to [Frank Sinatra] when he needed my help - and he did need somebody's help.

Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

I need to have the ball at my feet. That's when I know anything is possible.

I need more time to develop as a player and as a person.

I want to be good at what I do, obviously, and to do that I need to keep my head straight.

There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.

You need to dream nicer dreams. I come from a world that is a much nicer dream.

I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that.

You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God.

The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.

You need to become a winner to go beyond winning and losing.

There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.

You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.

A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

If you are seeking power and knowledge, you need to go to places that are healthy and happy and radiant. Avoid places that aren't.

Like all power spots, it needs to be treated with respect.

You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

You're not the doer. What's to do? You can't undo what's not done. It's all one anyway, why think about it? But you need to discriminate, so you'd better think about it.

The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.

If suddenly you get depressed, it doesn't have to throw you. You can push those emotions aside. You can cultivate happy emotions or become emotionless when you need to be very sensitive.

Whatever you need will be provided. Eternity takes care of everything perfectly. So never want for that which you do not have; you have exactly what you need.

A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.

In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive.

Life is not a malfunction. It's beautiful. But if you do not see it that way, it's simply because your room needs cleaning.

Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.

Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal, then you can't stay away from it.