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“I don't know if it's still taboo in our culture but counseling is a great thing because sometimes you need someone from the outside to sit down and go over whatever the questions or conflicts are and come to a resolution.”

Ifs Knows Needs Stills Sometimes Culture Conflict Down And Great Things Resolution Taboo Counseling

Author:Gabrielle Dennis

“We need to be much more far thinking in this new 21st century era of - of nation state failures and conflict. It's not just about getting rid of a single dictator. It is about understanding the secondary and third consequences that fall next.”

Thinking Needs States Fall Next Nations Understanding Century Conflict Consequence Thirds Eras Dictator 21st Century

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”

Ifs Needs Soul Dies Winning Force Heaven Violence Conflict Determined Violent Kingdoms Heroic Revival Kingdom Of Heaven Revival Prayer

Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.”

Needs Long War Lasts Worry Middle Conflict Long Time Bases Historical Iraq East Sand Vietnam Middle East Warfare Jungle Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Kuwait Middle East Conflict

Author:Dan Quayle

“I detest producing. I mean, I feel like I do it to enable myself to do all the other stuff that I do love, but I find it's in conflict with the other roles because the producer needs to be the one who says "No" and the director and the writer need to let their mind be free.”

Needs Feels Mind Mean Stuff Roles Directors Conflict Producers Detest

Author:Julie Davis

“There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.”

People Needs Real Democracy Issues Focus Military Danger Building Conflict Distracted

Author:Ted Cruz

“The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.”

Ifs Needs Interest Modern Conflict Rate Income Wicked Capitalist Dilemma Formation Condemnation Modern Society Dividends

Author:Peter Drucker

“If people just asked: "Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs?" the conflict would be easy to resolve.”

People Ifs Needs Done Would Be Easy Sides Conflict Resources Resolve Both Sides

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.”

Needs Political Social Conflict Roots Greed Tension

Author:Satish Kumar

“The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.”

People Needs Should Looks Facts Decision Minutes Listening Conflict Weapons Expected Nuclear Zone Cracks Unusual Nuclear Weapons Rhetoric Gave Up Precedent Concessions

Author:Michael Hastings

“I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.”

Needs Persons Guy Steps Watches Hell Comedy Conflict Tools Internals Happy Person Internal Conflict

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.”

“I would like to say is that to be truly American and represent American ideals you need to consider yourself a citizen of the world. American policy has gone contrary to that ideal. The Bush Administration is bent on making the world submit to "Americanism" instead of becoming a member of the world community. This orchestration comes from the very top of the Administration and has pushed America into a corner. So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.”

World Needs Trying Seems America Community Gone Policy Becoming Citizens Conflict Members Ideals Corners Contrary Administration Submit Bent Americanism Orchestration

Author:Chuck D

“They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course, Dalai Lama would be ideal. In another ten years from now though, he won't have the time to be really effective for them. They're truly wasting their time not using him now.”

People World Needs Years Would Be Courses Ten Conflict Ideals Chinese Sympathetic Lama Dalai Intercessors

Author:Robert Thurman

“Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide.”

Needs Helping Process Decision Conflict Developing Decision Making Explicit Alleviate Decision Making Process Gridlock

Author:David Livermore

“I never thought of serving as a conflict of interest, that would have been a luxury! I just needed something to survive. Initial needs have to be met first, and then later things like patriotism come in.”

Needs Firsts Has Beens Interest Needed Mets Conflict Luxury Serving Veteran Initials Conflict Of Interest

Author:Donna M. Loring

“A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.”

Thinking Way Needs Stories Reality Conflict Boring Good Story Virtual Reality Hypothetical

Author:Palmer Luckey

“There is an idea in Kabbalah that the creation of the world is created through space. God is an ever present Being, and in order for anything outside of Him to exist, like this world for example, there needs to be what's called a TumTum[a], or a withdrawal of Godly-like. And that withdrawal happens not by connection but actually by separation. Conflict. And in the gap of that conflict is where the world is situated. That's where the world is created and lived.”

World Needs Ideas Happens Order Space Example Creation This World Conflict Connections Separation Gaps Godly Withdrawal Kabbalah Creation Of The World

Author:Matisyahu

“Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.”

Needs Trying Two Causes Behinds Style Band Conflict Musician Jazz Singers Tunes Songwriters Singer Songwriters Ballads

Author:Van Morrison

“Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by nature, by robots, or by fungal infections in and around one's nether-country. Stories need conflict across the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual spectra. Accidents, betrayals, cataclysm, desperation, excess - these are the letters in the alphabet of conflict.”

“Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom in storytelling is synonymous with big doomy death-shaped death. So: be cruel to your protagonist. Rob him of something. Something important. Something he needs. A weapon. An asset. A piece of knowledge. A loved one. A DELICIOUS PIE. Take it away! Force him to operate without it. Conflict reinvigorates stale stories. New conflict, or old conflict that has evolved and grown teeth.”

Needs Writing Kind Important Character Stories Bigs Force Pieces Conflict Weapons Teeth Storytelling Cruelty Boredom Be Kind Assets Invites Loved Ones Pie Delicious Stale Protagonists

Author:Chuck Wendig

“I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.”

People Thinking Needs Jobs Term Interest Media Conflict Asking Journalist Interviews Better Jobs Conflict Of Interest

Author:Michael F. Jacobson

“We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the revolving door done and over with and get the big money out of politics.”

Needs Real Done Hands Bigs Happens Interest Doors Conflict Lobbyists Revolving Conflict Of Interest Revolving Doors

Author:Jill Stein

“Not only can [business conflicts] not be ignored, it needs to be dealt with really front and center before he can conduct [Donald's Trump] presidency.”

Needs Fronts Trump Conflict Ignored Presidency

Author:Chuck Todd

“[Donald Trump] has moved to admit that there is a conflict of interest now and he needs to do something.”

Needs Interest Trump Conflict Moved Conflict Of Interest

Author:Norman L. Eisen

“In the American constitutional system of three different branches, conflict - and I mean that peaceful, vigorous debate - it's a feature of our system, not a bug. We need less all-or - winner-take-all politics.”

Needs Mean Different Three Conflict Debate Peaceful Winner Features Branches Bugs Vigorous

Author:Benjamin E. Sasse

“I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States.”

World Needs Firsts Two States Turns United United States Conflict Office Including Statements Objectives Around The World Branches Two Things Department Secretary Syria

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“There is a land problem in Zimbabwe, there is a need land for redistribution but it must be handled different, without violence, without conflict, within the context of the law, bearing in mind the interests of all Zimbabweans both black and white. It's necessary that the Zimbabwean government to respond positively to those sorts of messages.”

Needs Mind Different Problem Government Law Black Interest White Violence Land Conflict Messages Black And White Positively Zimbabwe

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“I do not think that there need be the conflict between books and videos, that one would drive out the other. It certainly is possible to watch the screen for some things and for others to sit down and read, because the screen is easier to do, to watch is easier than to read because you don't have to contemplate anything. Someone else has done the work of putting it on the video.”

Thinking Needs Book Done Watches Easier Conflict Down And Screens Video Contemplating

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.”

Needs Humans Eye Individual Social Process Groups Conflict Models Sitting Scales Opening Confused Human Experience Spectators Futility Physicality Futility Of Life

Author:Will Self

“One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.”

Life Needs Wisdom Pain Existence Accepting Darkness Knowing Doubt Conditions Dying Acceptance Cost Conflict Consequence Court Live Life Stubborn

Book:The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman

Source: The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.”

Needs Humans Ideas Conflict Argument Innovation Debate Good Ideas Interaction Ideas And Innovation Research And Innovation

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.”

Needs War Conflict Posts Resolution Mechanism Conflict Resolution Rebuilding Post War Faith Trust

Author:Abdul Kalam

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard frost and the keen wind. Emily does not feel them.”

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Author:Charlotte Bronte

“If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.”

Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

“We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.”

Way Needs Use Shows Force Peace Powerful Conflict Resolve Resolution Tested Containing Win Win Use Of Force Resolving Conflict

Author:Scilla Elworthy

“Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”

“Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.”

“Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.”

Men Needs War Desire Conflict Unique Species Perpetual Agony Standing Out

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.”

Men Needs Doe War Fighting Force Nations Proud Conflict Convince

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“What people need and what they want may be very different.”

People Want Needs May Different Conflict

Book:Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others

Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others

“The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.”

Way Needs Today Opportunity Community Business Economy Environment Conflict Messages Profit Right Thing Reconcile New Opportunity

Author:Al Gore

“We've given Iraq a chance. Now they need to stand on their own. This is a 1,400-year-old conflict, and unless we are prepared to bankrupt ourselves spending another 1,400 years policing it, we need to stay out.”

Needs Years Given Chance Military Conflict Prepared Iraq Spending

Author:Rick Nolan

“In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.”

Needs Firsts Children War Today Religious Poverty Conflict Victim Fundamentalism Religious Fundamentalism

Author:Isabel Allende

“The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such outcomes are the result of negotiation strategies where the needs of both sides are considered important and an attempt is made to meet all needs. These solutions are appropriately called Win-Win because there are no losers. While often difficult to arrive at, the process leading to such solutions builds interpersonal relationships, increases motivation and improves commitment. Win-Win solutions are the most desirable outcomes of conflict resolution.”