Best half & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Should Waiting Half Leader Steps Plans Late Innovation Customers Consumers Too Late Business Leaders Good Business

Author:Stuart Rose

“I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it'.”

Want Needs Two Ideas Artist Given Half Type Lucky Come Up Treatment I Want You Other Half

Author:Steve Sabol

“Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.”

Ifs Needs Science Bits Half Produce Arms Months Destruction Skins Sight Tables Heal Bottles Smallest Blisters

Author:William Crookes

“Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.”

Needs Problem Hours Half Failing Week Design Rivers Bases Bridges Swings Locks Up And Down Obsolete Portal Barges

Author:Ray LaHood

“I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Kind Past Half Decades Investors Caution Over The Past Dip

Author:Liz Miller

“In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women"”

Way Needs Said Science Used Half Known Workers Educated Exact Sciences Younger Days

Author:Maria Mitchell

“Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.”

People Thinking Way Needs Helping Feelings Women Half Psychology Need Help

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost one half, the balance would crumble. I need to be able to both play and create games.”

Ifs Needs Important Play Able Games Lost Half Special Balance Creating Video One Half Lost Ones

Author:Hidetaka Suehiro

“Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.”

Thinking Knows Men Needs May Littles Shows Light Would Be Levels Half Flow Errors Faults Surface Wit Glad Bites Pearls Scarce Straws Fleas

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Wells May I Can Helping Feelings Wanted Speak Poor Half Know How Trouble Dog Strange Sorry Dumb Ems Our Words Being Sorry Dumb Things

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.”

World Needs Years Play Shows Able Film Guy Half Morning Audience Nice Week Brother Months Discipline Involved Scene Tools Theater Eight Bags Rehearsal Your Brother

Author:William Sadler

“I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my way back to where I left off. I have my headphones on, I'm checking email, I look at Twitter and Tumblr, and drink a lot of coffee. I need a lot of distraction to work.”

“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.”

“The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.”

Knows Needs Art Whole Eye Artist Speak Acting Half Steps Taught Late Height Charm Summit Always Wrong

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.”

Source: Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew

“A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.”

Way Needs Half Audience Personality Half Way

Book:The benefactor: a novel

Source: The benefactor: a novel

“In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.”

World Needs Matter Government Form Nations Half Tyranny Ideology Torture Our World Forms Of Government

Book:The View From The Ground

Source: The View From The Ground

“tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.”

“The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first." "What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need." I found this to be true.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Said Important Found Father Half Practice Battle Important Things Forgotten Blow Being True Quarrels

Author:Christopher Vokes

“Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.”

Needs Half Periods Clothes Vacation Relaxation Inspirational Vacation Vacation Time Best Vacation Need A Vacation

Author:Jerry Smith

“Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.”

World Needs Has Beens Running Half Terrible Built Males Ignored

Author:Yoko Ono

“Frankly, the trouble with winter is, it is all backbone. It is fleshless, insensate, with neither a breast to be leaned on nor a heart to love and ache and, if need be, break, nor any kindly hand to fondle and caress like a sea-wave on a sunny shore half asleep.”

Ifs Needs Heart Hands Half Break Trouble Sea Winter Wave Breasts Shore Ache Sunny Backbone Caress

Author:William Alfred Quayle

“Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.”

Needs Hard Purpose Order Winning Half Leader Focus Inspire Enthusiasm Mentality Hearted Half Hearted Hard To Trust Sporadic

Author:Sebastian Coe

“If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.”

Ifs Needs Song Three Half Minutes

Author:Jake Bugg

“[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?”

World Way Needs Should Form Hours Challenges Half Accepting Teacher Imagine Listening Offers Doctors Inevitable Centre Bureaucracy Filling Utopia Policemen Another World Filling In

Author:Gillian Tett

“That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?”

Want Needs Years Long Two Reason Past Half Thousand Lists Soil Thousand Years

Book:A God in Every Stone

Source: A God in Every Stone

“Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.”

Needs Half Sweet Directors Hollywood Mama Vino

Author:Ava DuVernay

“When it's finals week and you've been studying for five hours straight, you need three things to get you through the nigh.The biggest Slurpee you can find,half cherry half Coke.Pajama pants, the kind that have been washed so many times they are tissue-paper thin. And finally,dace breaks.Lots of dance breaks.”

Needs Kind Has Beens Three Hours Half Break Study Five Week Paper Finals Pants Three Things Coke Tissues Cherries Tissue Paper Finals Week

Author:Jenny Han

“A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.”

Needs Nations Half Fame Importance Notes Explanation Dozen

Book:Persuasion In Modern English

Source: Persuasion In Modern English

“If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should ever need another emblem, one which is friendly and pleasant, then I think they should choose the grapefruit. Or rather the half grapefruit, for this fruit only comes in halves, I believe. Practically speaking, it is always yellow, always just as fresh and well served. And it always comes at the same, still hopeful hour of the morning.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Believe Wells Stills America I Believe Stars Hours Half Morning Fruit Symbols Indian Pleasant Hopeful Friendly Yellow Eagles Stripes Emblems Moose Grapefruit Bison

Author:Johan Huizinga

“I loved him. I hated him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to strangle him. I was a walking, talking contradiction. There were days I was so torn by my conflicting emotions that I thought I would be ripped in half. Staring at my best friend and secret object of my undying love, I wondered if I would ever get off this crazy train of emotions swirling around inside me. I didn't like feeling this way. But the truth was I couldn't remember a time I didn't feel this aching need to completely immerse myself in all things Daniel Lowe.”

“A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.”

“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.”

“Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children.”

Needs Children Country Shows Political Choices Fighting Leadership Half Clear Burden Ministers Prime Prime Minister Pakistan Taliban Political Leadership Half Measures

Author:Bruce Riedel

“Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes more suffering. Give the whole dose, and the cure will be certain and decisive.”

Needs Giving Persons Doe Whole Certain Suffering Causes Results Half Sick Medicine Cures Advertising Dose Sick Person

Author:P. T. Barnum

“With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have those trays with a little bit of fruit going around or something because you get that blood sugar [dropping] thing, so it's curious because that's in your mind at the same time as you're about to say, 'I think it's about the humanity and the depth of feeling and we need to feel [Cinderella] soul expand and by the way, more cheese for the people in the back.'”

People Thinking Way Needs Giving Feels Mind Littles Soul Feelings Humanity Bits Hours Half Blood Little Bit Fruit Depth Curious Sugar Cheese Dropping Corsets Trays Blood Sugar Dropping Things

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“One of the reasons so many people fail is they get on this treadmill for an hour or an hour and a half. That's totally unnecessary. If it's cardiovascular, you don't need more than 15 to 17 or 18 minutes if it's vigorous.”

People Ifs Needs Reason Hours Half Failing Minutes Unnecessary Vigorous Treadmills Cardiovascular

Author:Jack LaLanne

“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!”

World Needs Giving Sports Loses Chance Half Careers Wonderful Drama Hundred Shoes Champion Repeats Interviews Destroying Fifteen Lap Gracious World Champions Jenny

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.”

Thinking Needs Kind School Guy Stuff Half Opinion Laughing Minutes Information Ten Percent High School Access Bars Dumb Idiot Make Sense Loud Realising Dumb Guy Informed Opinions

Author:Bill Burr

“The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.”

“It is important to communicate to children about what we are going through. We often speak in half truths. We don't frame the truth or explain our experience in terms they can understand. We need to take time to do this. What has to happen is that more people have to get involved with more children. Focus energy on the child. Children are raising themselves these days in all sorts of strange ways.”

People Way Needs Children Important Happens Energy Speak Term Half Focus Strange Involved Communicate These Days Take Time Get Involved Half Truth

Author:James Redfield

“We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.”

Needs Happens Half Oil Fuel Cleaners

Author:Vinod Khosla

“Half voluntarily, half Winston's older brother [William] would take me in, saying, "Daddy, I think you oughta do this." And I'd say, "I think you're right, maybe I do need it." Sometimes a week later I'd leave the place; sometimes I'd stick it out for a month.”

Thinking Needs Sometimes Half Week Brother Months Sticks Take Me Daddy Older Brother

Author:William Eggleston

“In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.”

Ifs World Needs Certain Values Given Goal Half Focus Our Lives Amount Quiet Okay Western Just Being Western World Being Quiet

Author:Shakti Gawain

“The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.”

“I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.”

Way Needs Years My Own Space Half Thirty Fourteen Half Way

Author:Alex Mack

“I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.”

Knows Needs Littles Real Bigs Bits Process Hours Half Focus Little Bit Down And Sat Amazed Chunks Half Hours

Author:Terence Winter

“When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.”

Way Needs Feels Done Girl Half Aggressive Outrageous Half Way

Author:Brigid Brannagh

“I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.”

Needs Half Issues Dollars Billions Not Sure Health Issues Women's Health

Author:Jeb Bush

“I'm so scared girls look at my breast implants and think, 'To get boys, you need big boobs.' I tell them, 'Don't get it done. Those fears go away. You develop other insecurities, but breasts aren't one of them.' I want to get them half-size.”

Thinking Want Needs Looks Done Bigs Girl Half Boys Size Scared Breasts Insecurity Going Away Get It Done Implants Breast Implants

Author:Jenny McCarthy

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