Quotes About Needs

interesting how much insight you could have into your own pathologies, and how little impact the insight would have on your underlying needs. Or on your behavior.

Over two centuries ago Adam Smith observed that individual freedom of choice ensures the most efficient production and distribution of society's goods. A competitive market, unhindered by the government and filled with entrepreneurs eager to pinpoint consumers' needs and desires, will be exquisitely responsive to them.

It is the habit that enables people to stay fit for today's world in four critical areas—physical, social-emotional, mental, and spiritual. You will recognize those four areas as rooted in the four basic needs that allow young people—all people—to feel greater peace of mind.

Satisfied needs do not motivate.

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates.

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival—to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

This is one of the greatest insights in the field of human motivation: Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival—to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

An effective sales person first seeks to understand the needs, the concerns, the situation of the customer. The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

our basic human needs and capacities to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy

we all have basic needs and capacities that are fundamental to human fulfillment.

declared preferences and revealed preferences.)

When product managers in the geographies don't get what they need from corporate, they tend to pursue options that may not be consistent with the overarching goals of the enterprise.

impossible is just the kind of challenge we've been waiting for. What the world needs most is Superman. What the world needs most is us.

Happiness becomes untethered to income, because once we can meet our basic needs, the lure of all the stuff it took to meet them, begins to lose its luster. Once extrinsic drivers start to fade, intrinsic drivers take over.

Genetic individuality gives us our different tastes and needs, and it also sets the stage for strife.

From the point of view of morality, it is not important everyone should have the same. What is morally important is that each should have enough."6

To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Self-love is the only antidote to the chaos of existence. And if you don't love and care for yourself and your own needs, you will cause unnecessary suffering both for yourself and others.

Perhaps what you want is blinding you to what else could be. Perhaps you are holding on to your desires, in the present, so tightly that you cannot see anything else—even what you truly need.

To have meaning in your life is better than to have what you want, because you may neither know what you want, nor what you truly need.