Needs Quotes - Page 264

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.

I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.

One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.

I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.

I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament.

I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.

One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.