Quotes on Needs

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.

There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.

Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.