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  • People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either -- John Irving
  • You have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect...and so are you! -- Wayne Dyer
  • We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. -- Anne Lamott
  • If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think. -- Michele Cassou
  • My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion. -- Rula Jebreal
  • I don't really want to say need because to me--an aggressive, liberated woman--need sounds too pathetic. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe need and want sometimes go together. Maybe I do need and want a man. ************************************************************************************************************************************* -- Phyllis Hyman
  • Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations. -- Nathaniel Branden
  • Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream. -- Patricia Ireland
  • Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it. -- Robert Winston
  • Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance. -- Steven Pinker
  • Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart; one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do. -- Donna Tartt
  • Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify! -- Henry David Thoreau
  • We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves. -- Iyanla Vanzant
  • Intrapreneurs consider them-selves on a mission to help society, to give it what it needs and wants, to truly serve others and improve themselves. Like all producers, they believe in a deep accountability, refuse to assign blame, don't believe in failure, and give their heart and sould to truly serve the customer and benefit society. -- Oliver DeMille
  • Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government. -- Carl Cohen
  • How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it. -- Wallace Stegner
  • We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day we confront issues relating to the needs and wants of others and must continually make accommodations. And in addressing these conflicting interests, the operative norm is - or should be - fairness, a balancing of the interests and needs of other parties, other 'stakeholders.' -- Peter Corning
  • Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator. -- Bob Kerrey
  • I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs. -- Adam Carolla
  • Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants. -- Dave Ramsey
  • Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level. -- Ira Sachs
  • I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants. -- Jim Cantalupo
  • Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you speak up. It's hard to read minds. -- Nina Dobrev
  • I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together. -- Warren Littlefield
  • As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants. -- Sherman Alexie
  • I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life. -- Constance Marie
  • We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do? -- Merrie Spaeth
  • The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. -- James A. Baldwin
  • I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine. -- Jason Momoa
  • The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. -- Leo Burnett
  • Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel. -- Maxwell Maltz
  • Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers - and savvy savers - is to model good behavior for them. -- Jean Chatzky
  • Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible. -- Richard J. Needham
  • Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem. -- Allen Boyd
  • If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand. -- Simon Sinek
  • Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to. -- Gerry Spence
  • Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  • Jesus himself wants my sufferings; He needs them for souls. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
  • Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work. -- Meryl Streep
  • Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions. -- Benazir Bhutto
  • The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs. -- Amelia Bloomer
  • Somebody, somewhere Wants me and needs me And that's very wonderful to know. -- Frank Loesser
  • Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants. -- Tom Robbins
  • When we love there are no barriers, no desires, no needs, no wants. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  • If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything. -- Randy Jackson
  • The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs. -- Kelly Miller
  • I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs! -- Christopher Dodd
  • The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity. -- Christine Lagarde
  • India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts. -- Anurag Kashyap
  • Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big. -- Debasish Mridha
  • The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. -- Roald Dahl
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  • There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs. -- Kim Harrison
  • The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history. -- Arthur Henderson
  • Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs. -- Joe Swanberg
  • No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs. -- Paulo Coelho
  • A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear. -- John C. Maxwell
  • In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs. -- Wally Lamb
  • The more you understand what somebody wants, needs, and fears, the more you can figure out how to add value. -- Tony Robbins
  • Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve. -- Joel Miller
  • Tinker Bell needs a Tinker Bell. She needs someone plotting for her. I certainly think that it's something she wants. -- Rose McIver
  • Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs. -- Rick Warren
  • Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God's programming. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake. -- Shannon L. Alder
  • There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able. -- Bellamy Young
  • A person's needs are met, and his appetite subsides. A person's wants are met, and his thirst swells greedily without end. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be. -- Albert Schweitzer
  • God is only interested in fulfilling your needs, not your wants; learn to successfully weed out your wants from your needs. Matthew 6:8 -- Felix Wantang
  • Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • 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
  • Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Far too many husbands fail to recognize that what your wife wants and needs most from you is your concern for her soul. -- Dennis Rainey
  • A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. -- Plato
  • [Hillary Clinton] needs to accomplish a lot. She also has to provide a unifying theme for all the things she wants to do. -- Tamara Keith
  • The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit. -- Mario Cuomo
  • Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to see. -- Surya Das
  • A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants -- Plato
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  • This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian. -- Sri Chinmoy
  • Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies. -- Brenda Shoshanna
  • We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on. -- David H. Hubel
  • The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants but to answer his needs. -- Massimo Vignelli
  • A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and needs. -- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
  • Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs. -- Stanley Schmidt
  • Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future. -- Russell L. Ackoff
  • Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships. -- Steve Maraboli
  • The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it's dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check. -- Tullian Tchividjian
  • When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently. -- Clark Moustakas
  • The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs. -- Joyce Meyer
  • When you don't ask for advice, but get it anyway, it has more to do with the needs and wants of the giver than you the receiver. -- Charles F. Glassman
  • God still hasn't recovered from the time that Satan doubted him....all God wants is someone to believe in him...God needs people to believe in him. -- Mike Murdock
  • That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands." -- Oprah Winfrey
  • It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it. -- Frederick Herzberg
  • The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise. -- Phyllis McGinley
  • "Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others. -- Van Jones
  • Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. -- Henry Louis Gates
  • If America wants to lead the world, it needs to make sure new ideas can get to market. More opportunity will birth more companies that create more jobs. -- Ram Shriram
  • Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer. -- Stephanie Mills
  • Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent! -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents. -- Ethan Hawke
  • Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride. -- Scott Weiland
  • Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want and needs, without any wants, there no need to have a need -- Temitope Owosela
  • Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart. -- Janet Morris
  • 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
  • When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need. -- Joko Widodo
  • A man, who needs you, will not come to visit you in the middle of the night. If he is there, definitely wants to stop you from being helpful. -- M.F. Moonzajer
  • God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him. -- Francis Chan
  • Everybody's different and every person is different and every actor's different and everybody has different wants and needs, but I'm a kid who loved comic books my whole life. -- Tim Rozon
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