Needs Quotes - Page 33

• Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

  Jakob Dylan

  Music, Able, Seems

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• Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

  George Saunders

  Real, Mean, Accomplishment

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.48, A&C Black

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• You see weird things driving... I've never understood log trucks. Sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant trucks loaded up with logs, and they pass each other on the highway... I don't understand that. I mean, if they need logs over there... and they need 'em over there, you'd think a phone call would save 'em a whole lot of trouble.

  Brian Regan

  Mean, Thinking, Phones

  "Brian Regan Live". Album by Brian Regan, 1997.

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• To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

  James Frey

  Attitude, Writing, Killers

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• A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

  Helen Vendler

  Transformation, Rhythm, Wells

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• I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

  Roald Dahl

  Clever, Kids, Stories

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• The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

  Roald Dahl

  Daze, Want, Drink

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

  Jenny Shipley

  Structure, Aspect, Integrated

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• For those who are understood no need to explain

  Ryan Lochte

  Understood

  Twitter post from May 26, 2012

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• European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes a political decision and behaves like a growing government.

  Romano Prodi

  Government, Expression, Decision

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• In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty … The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.

  Giuliano Amato

  Government, Order, Europe

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• Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.

  Howard Gardner

  Mistake, Moving, Past

  Howard Gardner (1999). “Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century”, p.181, Basic Books

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• But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands on and explore actively and try things out -- then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education.

  Howard Gardner

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

  Andrew Solomon

  Jobs, People, World

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.

  Andrew Solomon

  Kindness, Believe, Order

  "Q&A with Andrew Solomon". Interview with Bronte Coates, www.readings.com.au. May 27, 2014.

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• We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision.  Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation.  And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Names, Leader

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• We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Enlightenment, Doctrine, Inward

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• I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Self, Circles

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• What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day... It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Running, Heart

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• The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

  Jim Nussle

  Want, Budgets

  "CBO: Social Security funds needed to balance books", www.cnn.com. August 29, 200.

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• Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

  Christopher Lasch

  Roots

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• When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fashion, Government, Kentucky

  "All the Trouble in the World". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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• Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Differences, Independence, Being Free

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.

  Lou Holtz

  Team, Goal, Defense

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• To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.

  Fred Trueman

  Heart, Bigs, Bowlers

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