I'm going to take care of myself because that's what I need to take care of.
He stopped and pointed an accusing finger at her. “I didn’t ask for this. But I felt something in that back room with you, and it’s stayed with me ever since. I want to be with you. I need to be with you.” His tone was both angry and helpless.
Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.
I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.
People love learning new things and you need to understand they want to learn it as easy as possible.
The light needs only our trust And, of course, the darkness To work its eternal alchemy.
As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.
The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.
The reality is sometimes markets don't exist for very good reasons. It might be that there isn't a deep customer need. Or the economic model is just hard to pull off. Or maybe there is a regulatory barrier.
There is what Steve Blank calls the stage where you are searching for a scalable business model. Then, there is the stage when you have found that model and need to scale it. In the former stage you have to have a "beginner's mind," be in learning mode, and expect to learn things you didn't anticipate.
If you invest the time to understand the customer better than they know themselves, if you know the things they want or need even if they can't articulate it, you can begin to develop a good sense as to where there really are unmet needs in the market.
Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes is to stop and do something completely differently.
In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over - and we're far from over it, and so therefore, I'm far from over it.
The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.
I think everyone needs to try their first script, and usually the first one isn't as good. You learn so much as you're trying to figure it out.
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.
Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.
We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.
We need to give credence to the nonsexual relationships...the idea of having significant others instead of a significant other.
I need to observe the people, and I think I need to observe myself.
Everyone also needs to realize that business is not rocket science. Everything that you haven't done before, you don't know it because you haven't done it before. It's not brain surgery and you figure it out as you do it.
Sometimes a joke that doesn't work just needs a breath or a little word or the tiniest little change to be fixed.
I can't cater to everyone's needs and what they're going to be offended by; that's one freedom I have.
I don't need a lot of space.