Quotes About Needs

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open and give guys more of a chance.

Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.

Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.

Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.

All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.

Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.

If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.

They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.

The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.

Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.

Paul says that Spirit lives inside us, detecting needs we cannot articulate and expressing them in a language we cannot comprehend. When we don't know what to pray, he fills in the blanks. Evidently, it is our very helplessness that God, too, delights in. Our weakness gives opportunity for his strength.

The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who have been taught that nothing is superior to their own needs or feelings.