Quotes on Needs

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.

Instead of presiding over an economic system that panders to big business and a wealthy elite, a more human economy must be established which meets the needs of African women and young people.

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her...This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.