Quotes About Needs

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Until we disentangle fundamental needs and rights from someone's ability to charge us for it, capitalism will continue to throw us over the cliff's edge. This is how the world ends: not with a bang, but a ka-ching. —Afzad Kerman in his TED Talk, "Chaos and Crisis: The Accidental Ingenuity of the Almost-Apocalypse

During training, a lot of focus is placed on getting at a submissive's emotional core. Submission is about truth, about revealing yourself. If you simply demand obedience without understanding a sub's true motivations and needs, even if the sub obeys every command to the letter and every aspect of every scene, they're just going through the motions, and so are you." "Yes!

Predictable marketing requires an understanding of the circumstances in which customers buy or use things. Specifically, customers—people and companies—have "jobs" that arise regularly and need to get done. When customers become aware of a job that they need to get done in their lives, they look around for a product or service that they can "hire" to get the job done.

Companies focus too much on what they want to sell their customers, rather than what those customers really need. What's missing is empathy: a deep understanding of what problems customers are trying to solve.

Excuse me. Can you help me understand what job you are trying to do with that milkshake?" When they'd struggle to answer this question, we'd help them by asking, "Well, think about the last time you were in this same situation, needing to get the same job done—but you didn't come here to hire that milkshake. What did you hire?" The answers were enlightening:

Thinking about your relationships from the perspective of the job to be done is the best way to understand what's important to the people who mean the most to you. It allows you to develop true empathy.

Identifying disruptive footholds means connecting with specific jobs that people—your future customers—are trying to get done in their lives.

A product becomes a commodity within a specific market segment when the repeated changes in the basis of competition, as described above, completely play themselves out, that is, when market needs on each attribute or dimension of performance have been fully satisfied by more than one available product. The

the job to be done." The insight behind this way of thinking is that what causes us to buy a product or service is that we actually hire products to do jobs for us.

Only human beings—what did THEY want?

buyers from all markets had a basic set of needs and expected similar services. If you met those common needs, customers would happily forgo everything else.

Storytelling is all about conflict. Some would tell you it's all about character, but that's not accurate. Because character depends on conflict to illuminate itself. Every story has conflict, or it's not a story at all. Conflict is what stands in the way of what the hero needs or wants in the story.

David S. Young, Chapter: Foresight, the Lead that the Leader Has. Through foresight we help congregations shape an incremental, measurable three-year plan. This is a very artistic process. I use a triangle and have the church members put their vision on the top, the strengths on the lower angle, and the need on the other angle. I put foresight in the center.

It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Most people don't understand the psychology of asking, which is why it is so difficult to ask for (let alone receive) the things that are essential in your life.

Nadie pide lo que no necesita. A medida que pasan los años, esas necesidades no satisfechas siguen operando con la misma intensidad que en sus comienzos. Pero los adultos estamos cada vez menos dispuestos a comprender los mensajes, sobre todo repitiendo la frase "ya sos grande". O la de peor categoría: "Eso es una regresión".

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

It is one of the oddities of life in Maryland that no single supermarket can serve a household's entire needs.

Where on Maslow's hierarchy of needs does one find storytelling? Technically, he supposes, it's near the narrow top, a part of self-actualization. Yet it feels as if it's the entire foundation to Gerry, as if even the basics of water, food, and shelter rely on one's ability to make sense of the narrative of one's life.

Fasting is meant to take you, temporarily, out of the realm of the physical and focus your attention heavenward; as one Jewish guide to fasting puts it, 'at the heart of this practice is a desire to shift our attention away from our immediate needs and to focus on more spiritual concerns.

This slender store of medical supplies and equipment would have to serve the needs of 260 men of the fleet in all climates and conditions for several years.