Quotes About Needs

Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.

All of us have been through the process of being born and entering this world with three essential biological needs: security and survival, power and control, affection and esteem.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives

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

There is no rule for market segmentation or market targeting. Do so in a way that makes sense for your environment. Do so in a manner that gives you the best information for your decision making needs.

India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.

But now he knew the truth—there were no adults. There were just tall children stumbling around the world, walking pools of unfinished hopes, unmet needs, and seething desires. The unsuccessful ones ended up in asylums. The ones who learned to masquerade those needs became politicians.

In mapping, where I have no sense of direction, my needs are likely to coincide with the needs of lots of people.

I do think that narrative, long-form nonfiction is the perfect form because it's rooted in something very real, but we're also, you know, completely spiritual, emotional creatures driven by all sorts of desires and needs.

Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.

Eviction often leads to a disruption in critical services like Medicaid and nutrition assistance when families need them most.

Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots . But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.

It's a big world, and most of it is fungible. Doesn't matter where you are or what's around you, if you can cover your basic needs and find something productive to do.

So the only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground. Instead of having a single cause, the great advances of 1937 came from a combination of capabilities, ideas, and needs that coincided in multiple places.

Male bonding groups are associations of loners. The male values a companion whom he can stand up against and who can stand up against him: each receives assurance from the other's decently adversative stance, for it reminds him of his own needs and resources. This masculine intense friendly aggression is foreign to most women's experience.

Women didn't necessarily need good men to excite them. What they needed, and most men needed too, was somebody who understood their desires and their fears—not necessarily in that order.

We do not see that prayer is the asking of God to fulfill His needs.

He stays a witness to life, so he endures. Serve the needs of others, and all your own needs will be fulfilled. Through selfless action, fulfillment is attained.