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Quotes About Needs

Most of us aren't very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met.
~ Michael Ventura
True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"
~ Peter Drucker
Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.
~ Tom Rath
You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.
~ Carolyn Hax
I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
~ Adam Carolla
How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
~ Augustus William Hare
One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.
~ Charles A. Reich
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The state team is committed to working with our federal partners in meeting the needs of Floridians who were affected by Hurricane Wilma. We want to be as thorough as possible in this vital endeavor.
~ Craig Fugate
Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing. And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that be. I don't want much else from them either.
~ Darynda Jones
We are nothing but our own needs. She but showed each of us the face we hide from ourselves and everyone else. She shamed us by exposing our truths.
~ Steven Erikson
We will ourselves empty to numb us to our cruelty. We stiffen our faces and say we have needs. But to be empty is to have no purchase, nothing to grasp on to, and so in the emptiness we slide and we slide.
~ Steven Erikson
Misery loves - needs - company. There is nothing altruistic in sharing.
~ Steven Erikson
Badalle thought that Saddic's book should hold vast numbers of blank pages, to mark such silences and all they contained. The truths and the lies, the needs and the wants. The nows and the thens, the theres and the heres. If she saw such pages, and could crisp back each one, one after another, she would nod, remembering how it was. How it was.
~ Steven Erikson
Advertisers use sophisticated psychological methods to manipulate our desires, thoughts, and behaviors. The goal is to create a need where none previously existed, or to amplify a need.
~ Steven Hassan
The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.
~ Steven Pinker
I trust only myself-ourselves. We must travel and find ourselves a soulscaper, Gimel, a soulscaper suited to our needs. It has gone on too long, come too close. The sickness breathes upon our necks. I, for one, can wait no longer for others to act.
~ Storm Constantine
Authentic play comes from deep down inside us. It's not formed or motivated solely by others. Real play interacts with and involves the outside world, but it fundamentally expresses the needs and desires of the player.
~ Stuart Brown
Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Being co-dependent means we consistently put others' needs, wants, and demands before our own—in other words, emotional dependence.
~ Sue Patton Thoele
Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.
~ Tony Tan
We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.
~ David Suzuki
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.
~ Jennifer Armintrout
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
~ Simone Weil