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Quotes About Needs

In our rush to presumably better ourselves we had both missed what had otherwise always been obvious—that it often didn't take much more than careful consideration of each other's needs to secure a degree of happiness.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Those who love everything, as those who love a city, in its profoundest sense, become the shame of that city, the detraques, the paupers; their good is incommunicable, outwitted, being the rudiment of a life that has developed, as in man's body are found evidences of lost needs.
~ Djuna Barnes
the old "4-4-40" rough standard for human survival: four minutes without air, four days without water, forty days without food.
~ Don Winslow
We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.
~ Wilhelm Reich
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828
~ Anne Sullivan Macy
Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.
~ Andy Andrews
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.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
We raided the lab. Unsure of exactly what the medical needs of a profane aberration might be
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and your needs must be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy.
~ Jeremy Taylor
After a while the introvert develops strong extraversive needs; the man whose life has been governed exclusively by thinking craves in time the guide of feeling; the literal man searches eventually for ways of intuiting. So with the principal actors within the human character. Their rebellious understudies, if I may so designate them, are often of opposite persuasion.
~ Jerome Bruner
If God's love was sufficient for my greatest need, my eternal salvation, surely it is sufficient for my lesser needs, the adversities I encounter in this life.
~ Jerry Bridges
User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.
~ Jesse James Garrett
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.
~ Erich Fromm
In other words, ideas can become powerful forces, but only to the extent to which they are answers to specific human needs prominent in a given social character.
~ Erich Fromm
The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.
~ Erich Fromm
The field of human relations in Freud's sense is similar to the market—it is an exchange of satisfaction of biologically given needs, in which the relationship to the other individual is always a means to an end but never an end in itself.
~ Erich Fromm
Alle Menschen sind Idealisten und können gar nicht umhin, Idealisten zu sein, vorausgesetzt, dass wir unter Idealismus das Streben nach der Befriedigung von Bedürfnissen verstehen, die spezifisch menschlich sind und die über die physiologischen Bedürfnisse des Organismus hinausgehen.
~ Erich Fromm
The outside reality, persons and things, have meaning only in terms of their satisfying or frustrating the inner state of the body. Real is only what is within; what is outside is real only in terms of my needs—never in terms of its own qualities or needs.
~ Erich Fromm
Toda sociedad que excluya, relativamente, el desarrollo del amor, a la larga perece a causa de su propia contradicción con las necesidades básicas de la naturaleza del hombre.
~ Erich Fromm
sane society is that which corresponds to the needs of man—
~ Erich Fromm
The important conclusion for us is that the groups use the leader sometimes with little regard for him personally, but always with regard to fulfilling their own needs and urges.
~ Ernest Becker
Then let us raise children within a codified hero-system, that will permit us to survive and thrive according to our peculiar needs.
~ Ernest Becker
Cuando Jesús preguntó a los hombres "¿Qué quieren que haga por ustedes?", no fue porque Jesús no lo supiera, sino porque necesitaba que ellos declararan lo que querían que Él hiciera por ellos.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus