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“As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.”

Ifs Needs Government Jobs Faces Challenges Economy Tough Difficulty Ideology Free Market Small Government Tough Questions

Author:Lucy Powell

“Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.”

“One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.”

Knows Way Needs Fighting Creativity Difficulty Insight Mindset Driving Consumers Nokia

Author:Stephen Elop

“There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make.”

World Needs Doe Art Soul Hands Cities Art Is Difficulty Variety Permit Proliferation

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.”

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“A judge said that all his experience, both as counsel and judge, had been spent sorting out the difficulties of people who, upon the recommendation of people they did not know, signed documents which they did not read, to buy goods they did not need, with money they had not got.”

People Knows Needs Said Judging Difficulty Goods Documents Recommendations Sorting Sorting Out

Author:Gilbert Harding

“The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.”

Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism

“Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.”

Men Needs Littles Reason Whole Political Individual Interest Media Particular Mass Difficulty Satisfaction Selling Appeals Aspiration Sensible Embodiment Mass Media

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.”

Source: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul

“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.”

“How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.”

“There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.”

Thinking Needs Wells Enough Desire Democracy Citizens Difficulty Prejudice Institutions Presses Stupidity Dues Exploitation Urgent Freedom Of The Press Parliamentary Personal Desire

Author:Susan Stebbing

“There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.”

Way Needs Children Stills Different Problem School Reading Easy Teach Stupid Difficulty Recognition Dumb Different Ways

Author:Jackie French

“I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.”

Want Needs Feels Difficulty Stronger

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“The world is not looking for more doctrinal proof of the reality of God! It is not looking for greater proof of the resurrection or better arguments about creation. The world is looking for Christians who can stand up to every crisis, fear, trouble and difficulty and remain calm and at rest in the midst of it all. The world needs to see God's children trusting wholly in their Lord.”

World Needs Children Reality Christian Lord Greater Trouble Creation Argument Difficulty Crisis Calm Proof Midst Resurrection

Author:David Wilkerson

“Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.”

Thinking Needs Should Has Beens Said Process Understanding Practice Study Psychology Information Theory Depends Behavior Should Have Difficulty Chiefs Insult Rats Pigeons

Author:J. P. Guilford

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

“Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs.”

Needs Children Littles Parent Community Poverty Support Economic Baby Demand Difficulty Meetings Neighbor Insecurity Severe Stressed Disturbed Responding Basic Needs

Author:Sheila Kamerman

“Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.”

“Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.”

People Needs Facts Young Joy Difficulty Get Back

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.”

Way Needs Faces Faith Opportunity Winning Religious Prayer Battle Difficulty Trials One Way Excellent Dependence Refined Discouragement Humbling Dependence On God

Author:Charles Stanley

“Stress is caused by our resistance to what already is. Even our difficulties we need to accept. My greatest wish is to do God's will.”

Needs Wish Accepting Difficulty Stress Gods Will Resistance

Author:Dorothy Maclean

“People - Catholics and non-Catholics - are amazingly open to begin again in their walk with Jesus and in the Church when they hear clarity and honesty. What they don't put up with, thank God, is dishonesty and cover-up. And so I speak as openly as I possibly can about the difficulties of the Church because we shouldn't be afraid to call out an abuse of the wonderful gift God gives to us of the Church. When we - its members and its leaders - are imperfect we need to change. We need to begin again. That begins with honesty.”

People Needs Giving Jesus Speak Church Walks Leader Wonderful Honesty Members Abuse Difficulty Catholic Clarity Thank God Imperfect Dishonesty Need A Change Cover Ups Begin Again

Author:Jonathan Morris

“The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.”

People Ifs Needs Made Real Sometimes Film Deals Easier Tough Difficulty Dvds Distributors

Author:Willem Dafoe

“A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.”

Needs Writing Wells Seems Natural Difficulty Felicity Fluent

Author:Joseph Joubert

“Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.”

Source: Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh

“For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.”

Needs Hard Kindness Worry Loneliness Bears Difficulty Unsatisfied

Book:Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence

Source: Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence

“In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.”

Want Needs Giving Wells Courses Give Me Difficulty Excess Meaning Well

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.”

People Ifs Needs Littles Young Achieve Difficulty Plenty Collapse Mediocre Little Money

Author:Salvador Dali

“Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.”

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“If your husband has difficulty getting to sleep, the words 'we need to talk about our relationship' may help.”

Ifs Needs May Helping Sleep Husband Difficulty Our Relationship Your Husband

Author:Rita Rudner

“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”

Men Needs Kind Different Problem Spiritual Process Learning Path Experience Difficulty Encouragement Adversity Obstacles Encounters Different Kinds Spiritual Path Cleansing

Author:Sai Baba

“Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous as the man who will not believe in the Bible? He swallows a ton of difficulties, and yet complains that we have swallowed an ounce of them. He has much more need of faith of a certain sort than we have, for skepticism has far harder problems than faith.”

Thinking Men Needs Believe Problem Certain He Man Difficulty Harder Complaining Chains Thinker Skepticism Free Thinkers

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.”

Needs Real Sometimes Situation Roles Difficulty Customers Genuine Loan Accommodate

Author:Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

Men Needs Inspiration Adventure Health Healthy Difficulty Health Care Life And Love Memories Dreams Reflections Individuation

Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche

“I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they have had an experience. But I also know that an hour later that's faded and you are back to the difficult realities of your own life. And we need to help people know how to go beyond those difficulties to a place where God dwells.”

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Author:Parker J. Palmer

“I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work you need to.”

Ifs Needs Believe Important Difficulty Don't Believe

Author:Theodora Goss

“What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard to the Black Empowerment process in the case of small and medium business, is shortage of credit or difficulties of accessing credit.”

Needs Problem Process Black Cases Support Capacity Empowerment Difficulty Regard Credit Mediums Shortage

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.”

People Needs Years Stills Two Shows Past Areas Concerned Difficulty Two Years Evident Jubilee

Author:Bhumibol Adulyadej

“If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.”

Ifs Needs Enough Sleep Quality Difficulty Experts Appropriate Basics Hygiene Good Quality Enough Sleep

Author:Andrew Weil

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”

“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Spiritual Desire Grief Sky Perfection Difficulty Blue Plant Workers Seeds Flying Being Human Hoe

Author:Rumi

“Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.”

“When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way - a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow the other world opens up. The more you are in suffering and difficulties and are 'desperate' for God, the more He is going to come to your aid, reveal Who He is and show you the way out.”

World Way Needs Persons Shows Suffering Process Simple Difficulty Aids Conversion Desperate Revelations Orthodox Other Worlds Simple Ways

Author:Seraphim Rose

“The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.”

“I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.”

Thinking Needs President Views Effort Team Difficulty Variety Inspirational Team Dissonance Team Effort

Author:Madeleine Albright

“One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion.”

People Needs America Faces Spirituality Left Religious Mass Difficulty Profound Acknowledge Reaching Reach Out Disrespect Religious Life

Author:Bell Hooks

“THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.”

Men Needs Self Form Journey Adventure Difficulty Males Self Worth Uncertainty Trust In God Sense Of Self

Author:Richard Rohr

“There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”

Men Needs Doe Desire Cutting Difficulty Assurance Renewal Worthiness

Book:The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

Source: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

“There’s something about her—Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank with them. I have done things that I myself have difficulty reconciling—terrible things. But I have never known anyone like your mother. She is a person without limits—or if she has any, she hasn’t found them yet. She never needs to reconcile anything.”

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Book:Black Heart

Source: Black Heart