Quotes About Needs

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

the most reliable predictor of long-term marital success was a pattern in which the wives, in nonoffensive, clear ways, communicated their needs, and husbands willingly altered their behaviors to meet them.

praise is offered based on God's worthiness, not your needs,

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

We] do not glorify God by providing His needs, but by praying that He would provide ours—and trusting Him to answer.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.

The money, though, was symptomatic of a heart problem. The church cared more for its own needs than the community and the world.

This outward focus prepares the members for change. It gets them looking beyond their own needs to the needs of their community and the world.

I would say that an understanding of man's intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer.

What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar.

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

If we have a right to healthcare, we should also have a right to the most fundamental of human needs: shelter.

At the core, Philips is an innovation company. And for innovation to work, you need to look for the unmet needs.

The heavyweight division needs me.

Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.

My children have a world of opportunities that were not available to me. My kids have no idea about going without - there's no desire or need they have that hasn't been fulfilled, which is a blessing.

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

The new stage of capitalism recognizes that serving the genuine needs of people can be less lucrative than selling predictions of their behavior.

anarchosyndicalist Fernand Pelloutier asked: "Must even the transitory state to which we have to submit necessarily and fatally be the collectivist jail? Can't it consist in a free organization limited exclusively by the needs of production and consumption, all political institutions having disappeared?

So, think about the enormous effort, the enormous, strenuous, and continuous effort to persuade people that things that they merely want are really things that they must have, that they need. And this is the business of marketing and advertising. And as Noam pointed out previously, this completely distorts the notion of the so-called free market in which rational people make rational choices based on real needs.

What, beyond very basic physiological requirements, defines needs, and what marks the point when we move from needs into wants. This is a very slippery category, one that is quite explicitly exploited by the advertising and marketing fields, whose entire job is to convert wants into needs.