Top 100 What Needs Quotes
#1. Living without protecting what needs to be protected is the same as death ...
Hideaki Sorachi
#2. Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.
Lao-Tzu
#3. I think really what needs to happen is the people of the United States need to stand up and say, 'Oil is an energy model from the past. It doesn't work for the planet, it doesn't work for the people, it never has and it never will.'
Julia Butterfly Hill
#4. You can't improve anything if you don't first know what needs to be improved.
Bohdi Sanders
#5. We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.
Grace Napolitano
#6. He's carried dead men, felt the weight of their forfeited hopes. He will do what needs to be done.
Eddie Joyce
#7. What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.
Nelson Goodman
#8. I'm not a writer, but I'm very good at editing. That's my specialty. I can read something and tell you everything that's wrong with it and what's great about it and what needs to change, but it's hard for me to organize my thoughts.
Tracy Pollan
#9. I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.
Ehud Olmert
#11. When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
#12. When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.
Warsan Shire
#14. There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.
Tony Blair
#15. People don't like the word 'feminism' - that's what needs to change, because we're not going to find another word.
Bridget Christie
#16. I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute.
Masahiro Tanaka
#17. Resist telling people how something should be done. Instead, tell them what needs to be done. They will often surprise you with creative solutions.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#18. A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
Harbhajan Singh
#19. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.
Etgar Keret
#20. If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?
Richard Baxter
#21. Brave is being scared and doing what needs to be done anyway
R.C. Lewis
#23. The tendency of a CEO, and particularly (speaking from experience) of a new CEO trying to make an impact in a founder-led company, is to try to make too big an impact. It is hard to check that CEO ego at the door and let others make decisions, but that is precisely what needs to be done.
Eric Schmidt
#24. Each man has to work out his own understanding of what needs to be done, and then prepare himself to take advantage of the opportunity to succeed in a big way.
George S. Clason
#25. In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.
Dan Millman
#26. It's not what you have to "do" that needs to change. It's first how you "think" that needs to change. It's who you have to "be" in order to "do" what needs to be done.
Robert Kiyosaki
#27. We don't have the plumbing to take care of what needs to be taken care of.
Boomer Esiason
#28. Therefore, when I approach God with my petitions I need to be aware that ultimately He must decide what needs to stay and what needs to go in order that I can become the person He created me to be.
Mitzi VanCleve
#29. Lord," Michael said. "We walk into darkness now. Our enemies will surround us. Please help to make us strong enough to do what needs to be done. Amen.
Jim Butcher
#30. Every player should take 5 minutes to themselves before practice and mentally lock into what needs to be done.
Jeff Boals
#31. We all know what needs to be done - it's the doing it that is the challenge!
Amanda Gore
#32. People love what they're used to, I guess."
"No." You shook your head. "People should love what needs loving. That way they can save it.
Lucy Christopher
#33. As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide who's right and who's wrong. Life doesn't need to know the "right" way to go because it's going there anyway.
Adyashanti
#34. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.
Lauren Myracle
#35. When we are in the process of creating something, we must have flexibility of mind to move with what needs to be done. What allows this to happen is precisely the fact that we're not attached to how things should be done.
Joseph Jaworski
#36. Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.
Robert Nozick
#37. I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
Sally Ride
#38. 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.
Scott Foley
#39. Who are you to decide what needs to be done? That's subjective by nature. No two people think alike."
"Someone has to decide. Without, rulers, there's chaos.
Amanda Bouchet
#40. America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world. We have friends with whom we share values in Europe and Asia - thanks to the forward march of democracy - in Latin America, in Africa, and increasingly in the Middle East.
Condoleezza Rice
#41. Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.
Richard Dawson
#42. I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
David Cameron
#43. When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.
Trevor Noah
#44. Look," Liam said, "sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done.
Christopher Healy
#45. Accept your feelings. Know your purpose. And do what needs to be done.
Shoma Morita
#46. Justice without love will always fall short of what needs to be done. It will never be as good as it should be.
Elane O'Rourke
#47. Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.
Etgar Keret
#48. It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.
Mitt Romney
#49. Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
Bobby Knight
#50. As with the douchebags of the world, calling an asshole an asshole sometimes is exactly what needs to happen.
George Takei
#51. I've heard enough about what you want to do; now tell me what needs doing
John Marsden
#52. But if you don't decide what needs to be done about your secretary's birthday, because it's "not that important" right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effective, clear focus on what is important.
David Allen
#53. Donald Trump is a little bit like I am. He says what needs to be said. Most of all, folks, he's not afraid of the United States liberal media. They dislike him nearly as much as they hate me.
Paul LePage
#54. You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.
Erin Morgenstern
#55. You don't need to be brave. You just need to do what needs done. - Vic Challenger
Jerry Gill
#56. The ability to apply the discipline, the ability to do what needs to be done no matter how he feels inside, in my opinion, is the definition of a true professional.
Mike Tyson
#57. I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#58. In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#60. I'm a real stubborn person. I'm still humble, not too cocky, but I'm big headed. I know what I wanna do and I know how I wanna do it and I know what needs to be done.
Schoolboy Q
#62. You are important enough to invest the time and energy needed for the change you want. Commit to becoming the person you wish to be and carve out the time for what needs to be done!
Peter Walsh
#63. As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
Joshua Lederberg
#64. Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.
Michael Monroe
#65. Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently.
Sue Patton Thoele
#66. I might want to do a hundred things in a given day, but I know I have to pick up my kids between 5 and 6. That is the most important thing. So I fit in everything else around that. I know what needs to be done, and then I know what I want to get done.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#67. To the extent I can, I try to maintain a laser focus on what needs to get done from a priority standpoint. And not just from an urgency standpoint, but from a value-added standpoint. So where can I add the most value? Where is my time best spent?
Ivanka Trump
#68. You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.
Sander Levin
#69. I just try to keep rebounding the ball as much as I can. I just go out there and do what needs to be done and don't worry about my stats.
Rajon Rondo
#70. I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.
Eli Manning
#71. Look, sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done -Liam
Christopher Healy
#72. P.s. In case you don't know what "Do what needs to be done" means, it means that I want you to go bloody slaughter as many of the Sharan channelers as you can. I'll bet you a full Tar Valon mark-it's only been shaved on the sides a little-that you can't kill twenty.-MC
missive from Mat to Galad
Robert Jordan
#73. We'll see if she can rise to the occasion, do what needs to be done."
"We'll see if she can manage not to kill her Liege and Master, especially if he continues talking about her like she's not in the room.
Chloe Neill
#74. Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit
Dorothy Height
#75. The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.
Christopher Paolini
#76. A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.
James Cameron
#77. Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#78. The key to fixing the problem is to understand just what needs fixing or improving.
Mark Rewhorn
#79. It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
Wangari Maathai
#80. Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.
Leah Bobet
#81. Introspection leads to insights; insights tell us what needs to change.
Sam Owen
#82. It can be very jarring for others to see this introverted individual withdraw so completely when the going gets tough, and they may view them, incorrectly, as weak. They aren't, but they have to do what needs to be done in order to bounce back and get back in the saddle.
Diana Jackson
#83. They sit there shouting "Don't do it." Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to be.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#84. I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we're all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that.
Corbin Bernsen
#85. It took a scenario that he was going to die for Fred to wake up. It took that kind of shock for his life to be transformed. Maybe that's what needs to happen for all of us, for everyone who lives on Earth. That could be what a requiem scenario offers us.
Peter M. Senge
#86. Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.
Andy Stanley
#87. Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.
Marvin J. Ashton
#88. There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be
done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.
Peter Drucker
#89. When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist
George Monbiot
#90. Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
Andy Stanley
#91. Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.
Robert Genn
#92. The way that identity has been commercialised through movies and TV, and now through social networking, means we're all sort of working to a script, a collective idea of what needs to happen next.
Linda Papadopoulos
#93. At the critical moment it is the rare few who can do what needs to be done.
-Icarus
Boone Brux
#94. The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.
Robin Williams
#95. Surrender ... sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed
Rick Warren
#96. On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what I cannot know. Of mourning what needs to be mourned. Of accepting what needs to be accepted. Of hoping for what seems impossible.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer
#97. Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.
Pete Seeger
#98. Needing and getting don't seem likely to match up any time soon ... What needs doing is mine to do.
Charles Frazier
#99. If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how are we gonna discover our wounds
Michael Strong
#100. No human being who is in their centre can be hypnotised. That's what needs to be remembered. No human being who is in their centre, who is being guided, who is close to their intuition, who is a sharp, critical apparatus, who has got a sharp sense of judgement, can ever be manipulated.
Michael Tsarion
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