Needs Quotes - Page 531

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

You like all the junk pop cultural stuff. That's how you know who you are and what to wear and what you're like. But there's another MTV viewer who says you don't need to tell me what's cool. Just put it in front of me.

What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.

Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?

We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.

People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from.

We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarization.

Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage.

I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.

[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd."

Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.

I think Jim [Carrey], in the best possible way, thought, "I need to do different things to establish to the audience that I'm not going to do the same thing every time."

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

I need to keep pressing on until I am thoroughly thankful.