Quotes About Needs

This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads to trouble.

In making us work for its goals, society is assisted by some powerful allies: our biological needs and our genetic conditioning.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

Enough, woman who needs no sleep! It is past my bedtime! But I will ponder your suggestions in the morning when I wake up, which will be long after you've already risen.

There was no 'linkage', in other words, between corporate-oriented public investment and the social needs that desperately fought for attention in the rest of the city budget.

Whatever you have been given is what someone needs.....

From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish, sincerely and energetically.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

Now here's the good part. It was the part where Monica told me was the reason her life had seemed to collapse. It was to give her what she needed so she'd didn't feel incomplete and unfulfilled anymore.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass media to create a public demand for utterly useless commodities, each carefully engineered to deteriorate after a predetermined period of time. The plundering of the human spirit by the marketplace is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

I am interested in the increase of development within the society, thus helping and meeting the demands of the citizens.

Two Princeton sociologists conclude, "If we were asked to design a system for making sure that children's basic needs were met, we would probably come up with something quite similar to the two-parent ideal."39 Those who respect science the most should also be the most pro-marriage.

But it was not hatred that drove patients to mute desperation in their childhood, by alienating them from their feelings and their needs. It was such morality with which they were constantly pressured.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

The purpose of questions in the larger sale is to uncover Implied Needs and to develop them into Explicit Needs.

In summary, Need-payoff Questions are important because they focus attention on solutions, not problems. And they make customers tell you the benefits.

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.

We'll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us.

Man wants but little here below,Nor wants that little long.

Q: Why do you blog? A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequently updated and more interactive (as well as that bit more interesting, I hope), but also because I think the world des-perately needs to hear my opinions, and I like to oblige.