Needs Quotes

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.

The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

Your business needs a raison d'être. Be prepared to work 24 hours a day, and be willing to take risks. And you have to love it or you won't succeed.

When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.

The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?

Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.

We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

Almost everyone can do or be something for someone else in need.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

We need to glance at our problems and stare at Jesus!

We need to live the life that we say we believe in.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

Food is not the problem. It's what we do with food that becomes the problem. That's why we need to learn to keep everything in our lives - especially our eating - in proper balance.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

I need to keep pressing on until I am thoroughly thankful.

You need to be moving if you want God to show you which way to go.

I think one has to be aware that a change needs to be made to improve one's life and then there will always be alternatives and choices that can lead you away from a life of violence.

I think Jim [Carrey], in the best possible way, thought, "I need to do different things to establish to the audience that I'm not going to do the same thing every time."

Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.

[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd."

I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage.

I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from.

Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.

I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?

Trump said today that if countries are going to have nuclear weapons, then he said the United States needs to be at the top of the back, in his words, meaning increasing the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

I'd say that kids working on sets, even if it's Bambi, need to be allowed to be kids, even if they're working, not become little adults - that to me can be distorting to kids as an experience.

The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.

When I wear jewelry it needs to really mean something.

I collect jewelry for a story - so something I got on a trip or something I got from my family. You know it always needs to have a meaning for me.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?