Needs Quotes - Page 27

• We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Running, Darkness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Military, People, Evil

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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• Regardless of what happens, I still honor my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because at the end of the day, that's what's important, win or lose. ... We need to get back to one nation under God, and be role models for kids.

  Tim Tebow

  Jesus, Kids, Winning

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• I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

  Frank Turner

  Believe, Guitar, Desperate

  Song: I Still Believe, Album: England Keep My Bones, 2011

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• Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inventory, Backwards, Kindles

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• If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

  Jeff Bezos

  Years, People, Vision

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!

  Tony Robbins

  Goal, Desire, Flow

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• If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Bored

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• Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.

  Megan McCafferty

  Girl, Guy, Together

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.92, Crown

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• We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and understanding all facets of our children’s development. If we can understand the underlying developmental process, we can see a child’s struggles as signs of striving toward growth instead of chronic problems or attempts to aggravate adults.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Struggle, Opportunity

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• Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service.

  Peggy Noonan

  Accomplishment, Way, Return

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• If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Business, Two, People

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• Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us. May the Games be held in peace, in the true spirit of the Olympic Truce. Athletes of the 80 national Olympic committees, show us that sport unites by overcoming national, political, religious and language barriers. You can show us a world we all long for.

  Jacques Rogge

  Sports, Religious, Athlete

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• I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

  Adam Osborne

  Fog, People, Giving

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• Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

  Marvin Minsky

  Differences, Car, Example

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• We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

  Yuan T. Lee

  Ice Cream, Car, Citizens

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• Change Quotes were designed for those who need to change.

  Jon Jones

  Change, Need A Change

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• Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

  Carl Magnusson

  Inspiration, Design, Way

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• My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

  Lois Capps

  Encouragement, Children, School

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• Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Environmental, Energy, Nuclear

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• You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

  Merton Miller

  Hero, Forever, Finance

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• They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

  Edward Bennett Williams

  Feet, Lawyer, Toastmasters

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• Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Money, Chess, Fame

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• Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.

  Ben Bernanke

  Strong, Practice, Organization

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• The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It is clear that many banks did not fully implement these fundamental concepts. The obvious lesson is that banks need to improve their corporate governance practices and supervisors must ensure that sound corporate governance principles are thoroughly and consistently implemented.

  Daniele Nouy

  Practice, Risk, Sound

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