Needs Quotes - Page 31

• The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Empathy, Understanding

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• Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Silence, Rejection, Empathy

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• In nonviolent communication, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests. Then we may wish to reflect back, paraphrasing what we have understood. We stay with empathy, allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before we turn our attention to solutions or requests for relief.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Opportunity, Empathy

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• It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react.

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Offering, Order

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• The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Men, Empathy, Mind

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• I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

  Linda McCartney

  Simplicity, Answers, Simplifying Life

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• The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Hands

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• Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to create the stuff we're burning in 200 years. Renewable energy sources are where we need to be headed.

  Jack Edwards

  Children, Years, Oil

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• The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction, we need to achieve real, substantive political power, and we need to get there fast.

  Eban Goodstein

  Real, Fate, Political

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• We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

  Jay Inslee

  Cities, Car, Energy

  Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks (2013). “Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy”, p.286, Island Press

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• What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

  Eric Chivian

  Climate, Degrees, Motivated

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• We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for PBS, is insulting to the audience. If you believe in the intelligence of your audience, you don't need to tell them what to think and how to process the material they're seeing.

  Jayne Loader

  Believe, Thinking, Pbs

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• One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

  Mother Teresa

  Spring, Shopping, Luxury

  "No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition".

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• Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things to confuse users, less risk of user errors, less description and documentation, and therefore simpler Help content. Removing any one feature automatically increases the usability of the remaining ones.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Mean, Errors, Simplicity

  Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger (2006). “Prioritizing Web Usability”, p.519, Pearson Education

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• Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Essence, Simplicity, Desire

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• I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Grief, Sadness, Listening

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that?

  Nhat Hanh

  Party, People, Listening

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• We have to make sure that our kids still feel good about themselves no matter what their weight, no matter how they feel. We need to make sure that our kids know that we love them no matter who they are, what they look like, what they're eating.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Feel Good, Looks

  Remarks by the First Lady at "Let's Move" Town Hall Event, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 7, 2010.

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• I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Meaningful, Thinking, Old Things

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• With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

  Joe Baca

  Water, Population, Growing

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• Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

  Joe Baca

  School, Special, Graduates

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• I think these people [Al-Qaida, terrorists] need to be forcibly converted to Christianity ... It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.

  Michael Savage

  Thinking, People, Als

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• We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy.

  Michael Savage

  Warrior, Order, Enemy

  "SAVAGE TALK / A former herbalist has remade himself into the vitriol-spewing king of the Bay Area's afternoon drive time" by Dan Fost, www.sfgate.com. February 6, 2003.

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• If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

  Steffi Graf

  Writing, Doctors, Cities

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• I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Fighting, Play, Hard

  "ZZ top". Interview with Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2004.

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