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Quotes About Needs

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
~ Roger Ebert
I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.
~ Roger Moore
The self will not be forced under, nor will the baby's needs gracefully retreat. The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.
~ Louise Erdrich
Suffering exhibits itself; pleasure and the needs of the flesh hang their heads in shame.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
think your mother-in-law understands particulars. She's not a do-gooder, because most do-gooders deal in generalities. She never loses sight of the particular person, the unique human need.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
A Maven is someone who wants to solve other people's problems, generally by solving his own," Alpert said, which is true, although what I suspect is that the opposite is also true, that a Maven is someone who solves his own problems—his own emotional needs—by solving other people's problems.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
It seems the father of the unconscious agreed: When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want and needs, without any wants, there no need to have a need
~ Temitope Owosela
People who have wellbeing and feel fulfilled, need far less than people who feel unfulfilled, who always seem to need more." By Rethinking Your Mindset you can create SWIFT sustainable success.
~ Tony Dovale
Your business should serve specific needs for specific demographics of people. That way, your marketing efforts will be more laser-focused and effective.
~ Kevin J. Donaldson
Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.
~ Carol Ann Tomlinson
History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Why can't I ask?" "This is because . . . because if you ask it . . . it is no longer a wish but a selfish desire," said Amah. "Haven't I taught you—that it is wrong to think of your own needs? A girl can never ask, only listen.
~ Amy Tan
But now his body feels like some dumb beast he merely exists inside, and every now and then it lets him know it needs to do something: To eat. To piss or shit. To move or just lie down and rest.
~ Andre Dubus III
one word of advice to my reader. It is this. It needs
~ Andrew Murray
Let us consider how our lack of love, indifference to the needs and feelings of others, even sharp comments and hasty judgments that are often excused as being honest and straightforward, are thwarting the effect of the influence of the Holy Spirit on others. Manifestations of temper and touchiness and irritation, feelings of bitterness and estrangement, have their root in nothing but pride. Pride
~ Andrew Murray
Not on the strong or the fervent feeling with which I pray does the blessing of the closet depend, but upon the love and the power of the Father to whom I there entrust my needs.
~ Andrew Murray
The blessing of the closet does not depend on the strong or the fervent feeling with which I pray, but upon the love and the power of the Father to whom I entrust my needs.
~ Andrew Murray
In Jesus all our fears are removed, all our needs supplied, all our desires met. He, the righteous One, is your righteousness; He, the obedient One, is your obedience. Will you not trust Him for this? What faith sees and desires and expects and accepts, surely it will dare trust Christ to give. Will
~ Andrew Murray
Many coping strategies have a Zen simplicity. Instead of resolving chaos, find beauty and happiness amid chaos. I am reminded of a friend who said that when she found out her husband couldn't fill her needs, she changed her needs;
~ Andrew Solomon
Work is the fruitful transformation of the world through human effort and skill, in ways that serve our shared human needs and give glory to God.
~ Andy Crouch
Only their efforts to make him talk failed. He would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence—his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did.
~ Anita Desai