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Quotes About Needs

Everyone needs air, water, food, shelter, and clothing all the time, Monday. Everyone needs care when they're sick or hurt, love when they're sad or scared, someone to tell them no or stop when they're being unsafe. Everything else people need sometimes—and it's a lot—is special. All of us have special needs.
~ Laurie Frankel
It's a good thing people's needs don't all arise at the same time; otherwise we wouldn't be able to meet them all.
~ Laurie Frankel
It's nice when people have needs you can meet.
~ Laurie Frankel
It's a good thing people's needs don't all arise at the same time; otherwise we wouldn't be able to meet them all. When you left Wisconsin, it was Poppy's turn. Roo's is coming.
~ Laurie Frankel
Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.
~ Lawrence Auster
13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.
~ Lemony Snicket
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?
~ lenin vladimir v
Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.
~ Leo Buscaglia
There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
architecture is an art of the mind that will display in front of the eyes from others which can satisfy their needs
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
this lovely paraphrase on me from St. Teresa:   Place yourself in the presence of Christ. Don't wear yourself out thinking. Simply speak with your Beloved. Delight in him. Lay your needs at his feet. Acknowledge that he doesn't have to allow you in his presence. (But he does!) There is a time for thinking, And a time for being. Be. With him.
~ Jana Riess
Yes, I have found children living in underprivileged communities are very motivated to help others. I am always very moved when I see the excitement in the eyes of these children when I tell them they can make a difference. That the world needs them. Above all, that they matter.
~ Jane Goodall
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy. It frightened me for Claire to bare her needs so openly. If a person needed something badly, it was my experience that it would surely be taken away. I didn't need to put mirrors on the roof to know that.
~ Janet Fitch
We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Know what your characters want, know what they need most, know what they fear most, and don't be fearful of facing it, no matter how unpleasant it may be.
~ Mark Waid
Saying that something is accessible gives it this implication that people need something, and thinking that we know what people need or want is really unpleasant. I don't like to think that way, like, predicting what it is that the people want.
~ Julia Holter
Progressives make money and spend money on businesses that meet needs instead of kill people! The future is in meeting needs - unto the bourgeois business of cleaning the drapes! - not spewing death and destruction with kickbacks.
~ Mimi Kennedy
First and deadliest of all is a founder's unwavering belief that he or she understands who the customers will be, what they need, and how to sell it to them.
~ Steve Blank
What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
~ Carole Nelson Douglas
For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.
~ Mariella Frostrup
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
~ Aristotle
Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.
~ Jeff Bezos
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
~ Khalil Gibran