Top 100 What'needs Quotes
#1. You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.
Erica Jong
#3. Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
Thomas Jefferson
#4. What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, It's all your fault!
Haruki Murakami
#5. If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up.
Drake
#6. It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.
Frances Perkins
#7. I am quite an admirer of Fidel [Castro]. For me, Fidel is the first and the best man in solidarity with the peoples of the world. Fidel shares not just what he does not need, but every little thing he has. That is called solidarity.
Evo Morales
#8. I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.
Geoff Zanelli
#10. That's what they do, psychopaths. They figure out your language, your currency, your needs, your dreams and fears. Then they figure out how to use those things to get what they want from you. Most
Lisa Unger
#11. A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.
Jessica Alba
#12. Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need.
Erich Schiffmann
#13. What love it to me ... is his happiness. I'm not like you where I fall in love so I can be happy. All I need is for him to be smiling.
Kim Su-mi
#14. Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.
Brad Warner
#15. Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.
Ernest Holmes
#16. We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic physiological change.
Jeffrey Bland
#17. How do I know that I don't need what
I want? I don't have it.
Byron Katie
#18. I was going through a break up. I was depressed ... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.
Damon Albarn
#19. Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
Anne Rice
#20. I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?
Eminem
#21. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.
Fred Rogers
#22. It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.
Steve Martin
#23. What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure
Hans Zimmer
#24. All you need to find and accomplish God's purpose in your life is God's permission and approval
not anyone else's. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you're up to.
Zig Ziglar
#25. Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.
Sheila M. Reindl
#27. Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.
Don Cooper
#28. Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.
Keigo Higashino
#29. Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
Robert Fitzgerald
#30. I feel like support is what anyone with a disability to overcome needs
Amy Rankin
#31. Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.
Saint Augustine
#32. I haven't been around here for long. Well ... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what I'm here for. I know that Lord Umber's important, though. I've seen all the good things he's done. I know for sure the world needs him. I can't say that about me.
P.W. Catanese
#33. But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets.
Gina McCarthy
#34. I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.
Hillary Clinton
#35. You know, there's something when you just know you fit together. And I fit with you. I don't care what you are, human or anything else. It's like a need, Maddy. So please." He stopped and looked at her desperately. Nakedly. "Give me a chance, Maddy.
Scott Speer
#36. If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the terrorist attacks. Not to rely on what you and I are putting in chat messages on Google or Apple.
John Kiriakou
#37. I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,
Edward Snowden
#38. Many of my friends and colleagues are in the public eye, so they have to pay close attention to what they wear. But every woman needs to stay on her toes in this era of cell-phone cameras and Facebook.
Nina Garcia
#39. Everyone needs rules. After all, how can you break what doesn't exist? Rules give anarchy something to aim at
Jodi Taylor
#40. He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs
Alice Hoffman
#41. Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing ... You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.
Enya
#42. The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.
Clint Smith
#43. What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
E. M. Forster
#44. What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
Bertrand Russell
#45. It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.
Robert H. Jackson
#46. We have to not just open our eyes to what's going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what's going on right in front of us.
Forest Whitaker
#47. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant
#48. When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.
Kelly Marcel
#49. If it all happens naturalistically, what's the need for a God? Can't I set my own rules? Who owns me? I own myself.
Jeffrey Dahmer
#50. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's strategy is to lead from behind. It sounds like what he is outlining is not to lead at all. We cannot continue to outsource foreign policy. We must lead. We are the most powerful nation in the world. We need to begin to act like it, again.
Marco Rubio
#51. To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing
Isaac Asimov
#52. And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like ... ow ... ound ... round ... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
Douglas Adams
#53. It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.
Patricia Field
#54. I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.
Jay Watson
#55. I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.
Salman Rushdie
#56. You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
Jacques Pepin
#57. What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
Heinz Von Foerster
#58. Living without protecting what needs to be protected is the same as death ...
Hideaki Sorachi
#59. We know what needs to be done
all that is missing is the will to do it,
Nelson Mandela
#60. If there is any science man really needs it is the one I teach, of how to occupy properly that place in creation that is assigned to man, and how to learn from it what one must be in order to be a man.
Immanuel Kant
#61. I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful ... With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.
Elon Musk
#62. It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges.
Peter P. Mahoney
#63. The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?
Lucy Larcom
#64. Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.
Hugh Douglas
#65. What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.
Nicholas Royle
#66. Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.
John Scalzi
#67. Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.
Stephen Beal
#68. Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated ... what is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man and from nature.
Erich Fromm
#69. Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines.
Seymour Papert
#70. Don't let any of 'em in the room 'til my guy gets what he needs. We'll be outta here before they get their gloves on.
Tea Party Teddy's Legacy
Dianne Harman
#71. When I watch shows, what I gravitate to is serial. You need to come back, you need to know what's happening.
Krysten Ritter
#72. Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.
James Hunter
#73. What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
Derek Freeman
#74. All I can do is listen to what my body needs and feels.
Carnie Wilson
#75. What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
#76. Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals
#77. Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.
Robert H. Jackson
#78. Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#79. We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.
Charles Duhigg
#80. What works for one person's needs is almost always very different from the next.
Tom Rath
#81. At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.
Lewis Thomas
#82. What you should do is wait until the end of each month, and then say, "OK, how much money do I have? How much do I need? Let me send the rest to retirement."
Dan Ariely
#83. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#84. What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#85. A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.
Cormac McCarthy
#87. You think you know what you want and how it's all supposed to turn out. When all is said and done, you get what you need. You know in the end that what you need is what you really wanted all along.
Kate McGahan
#88. And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.
Lauryn Hill
#89. That, I think, i a truer mark of belonging somewhere - being willing to do anything, everything, that needs to be done, regardless of what I want.
Sara Raasch
#90. What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.
C.P. Snow
#91. Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.
Arthur W. Pink
#92. I'm very open, I love music and I love people so you need to know what's going on.
Ledisi
#93. We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.
Brene Brown
#94. We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses and be very clear about what is expected, and find out whether they're comfortable with that. Wardrobe has to be in place. There have to be checks.
Michael Sheen
#95. Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.
Wes Moore
#96. Dad's especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can't be erased.
Sue Enquist
#97. Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.
Barbara Damrosch
#98. It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.
Edsger Dijkstra
#99. WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW . . . IS A WINEGLASS OF UNUSUAL SIZE T
Chloe Neill
#100. If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look ... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
David Hockney
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