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“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.”

Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!”

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

“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.”

People Way Needs Firsts Stills Real Ends Facts Lying Lines Hero Capable Ideals Fellows Bottom Soldier Harm Tales Confused Legends Bottom Line Legendary Sergeants Fellow Soldiers

Author:Jessica Lynch

“One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle Without struggle there is no life.”

Needs Important War Ends Hard Happens Dies Peace Struggle Hard Work One Day Ideals Important Things Convinced Arise Banner

Author:Kathe Kollwitz

“The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically strong to withstand the expansion of the lithium during charge.”

Needs Strong Protect Ideals Reactions Chemicals Metals Stable Layers Expansion Protective Chemical Reactions Lithium

Author:Steven Chu

“We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.”

Needs War Real Hands Might Opportunity Party Ideals Hunger Desperate Sickness Conception Dread Enslavement

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.”

Want Needs Past Ability Mankind Ideals Competence Unattainable Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.”

Needs Years May Desire Impossible Shapes Ideals Routine Disgusting Vague Imaginative Stimulus Parts Of Life Routine Work

Book:Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Large Edition

Source: Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Large Edition

“It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.”

Needs Done Views Impossible Periods Ideals Tools Technique Painter Repeats

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.”

“A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.”

Needs Giving Feels Humans Wells Accepting Marriage Expression Equal Ideals Instinct Intellect Partners Setting Settings Human Relations Human Relationships Happy Marriage

Book:The Integrity of the Personality

Source: The Integrity of the Personality

“Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.”

Needs Asks Exercise Ideals Democratic Lips Propaganda Consistent Lip Service Democratic Ideals

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

“The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real”

Needs Real Soul Greater Ideals Human Soul

Author:Victor Hugo

“I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to be a religion designer. I'd like people come up to me and say, I need a religion. I'd go talk to them for a while, and I'd design a religion for them. That would be a great job. There's a need for people like that. Fortunately, seeing that one can't actually do it, I get paid for sort of making them up anyway.”

People Thinking World Needs Would Be Jobs Seeing Design Humour Ideals Paid Come Up Designer Great Job Ideal World

Author:Neil Gaiman

“We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.”

World Needs Vision Atheism Offers Protect Ideals Strive Positive Atheism Skeptical Visionaries Other Worlds Unreliable Miscalculations Misadventure

Book:The New Skepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge

Source: The New Skepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge

“One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place.”

Source: Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea

“Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.”

Needs Helping Desire Interest Figures Ideals Our Society Desire For Power Interest In Politics

Author:Elisabeth Shue

“Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.”

Needs Humans Wells Might Spirit Quality Poet Highest Ideals Stranger Poetic Mates Intercourse Similarity Dreary Elevation Endowment Craftsman

Book:The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?”

Knows Needs Looks Doe Important Order Asks Imagination Rooms Silence Students Music Is Ideals Important Things Chaos Release Serenity Silence Is My Imagination

Author:Toni Morrison

“We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But to organize ourselves in such a way that means correspond to the ends, and to organize ourselves in such a way as to create kind of human relationship that should exist in future society. That would mean to organize ourselves without centralize authority, without charismatic leader, in a way that represents in miniature the ideal of the future egalitarian society.”

“The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give to little ortoo much, is in essence an attempt to be the ideal child--well behaved and dutiful--of one's own parents. But as a result of these efforts the needs of the child go unnoticed. I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother; I cannot be open to what she is telling me.”

Ifs Needs Giving Wells Children Littles Mother Parent Results Effort Empathy Ideals Essence Raises My Children Behave Unnoticed Good Mother Being A Good Mother

Author:Alice Miller

“Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous conclusions.”

People Men Needs Impossible He Man Men And Women Ideals Relation Ridiculous Practicals Conclusion Ideal Man

Author:Mary C. Ames

“Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.”

Ifs Want Needs Looks Persons Together Ideals Without You Complete Life

Author:Kirstie Alley

“Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Two Important Change Ideals Important Things

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I'm realistic about it. It's been quite some years since I've worked full-time in that area, so I no longer have any material that bears any relevance to my life or the audience. I'd need to take probably a year off, which I wouldn't be prepared to do, so it's a romantic ideal.”

Needs Years Audience Materials Bears Areas Ideals Prepared Realistic Be Prepared Relevance

Author:Eric Bana

“Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.”

Ifs Needs War Support Economy Scene Models Ideals Machines Victim Filled Terror Revenge Propaganda Crash Putin Stoke Terror Attacks Russian Economy

Author:Garry Kasparov

“The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.”

Needs Democracy Ideals Democratic

Book:Chomsky on Mis-Education

Source: Chomsky on Mis-Education

“The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”

Source: Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.”

Needs Bigs Social Differences Church Lines Groups Activity Members Ideals Clubs Spread Banking Expanding Peril Crossings Epidemics Small Changes Cognizant

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”

Life Needs Humans Stills Real Soul Wisdom Greater Inspirational Life Ideals Human Soul

Book:William Shakespeare

Source: William Shakespeare

“The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.”

Needs May Fighting Strong Grows Common Groups Members Ideals

Book:On aggression

Source: On aggression

“Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who demand that government intervene in every aspect of our lives. In both instances the ideal balance is destroyed with a resultant detriment to human progress.”

Needs Humans Government Church Our Lives Progress Balance Demand Aspect Ideals Program Errors Destroyed Instance Counterparts Human Progress Contingency

Author:Dean L. Larsen

“Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.”

Needs Giving Wish Sacrifice Birth Offers Capitalism Ideals Profit Frustration Superiority Exalted Humbling Credentials Without Sacrifice Rebuff

Book:The Spirit of Enterprise

Source: The Spirit of Enterprise

“The thing about branding is it isn't etched in stone. A brand is a mark or an image or a perception we stamp on a product, a concept or an ideal, but it doesn't last forever. Like anything else, it needs to be nurtured and reinforced, or it will start to fade.”

Needs Lasts Forever Products Perception Concepts Ideals Stones Mark Brands Fades Branding Stamps

Book:Display of Power: How FUBU Changed a World of Fashion, Branding and Lifestyle

Source: Display of Power: How FUBU Changed a World of Fashion, Branding and Lifestyle

“The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.”

People Needs I Can Would Be Purpose Imagine Products Ideals Robots Vacuums Cleaners Gadgets Cupboards

Author:Colin Angle

“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

“Be patient and gentle with yourself as you continue to learn new ways of eating and living. There is no need for hard-and-fast rules or white-knuckle determination. Keep leaning forward into the positive changes you are making, and then apply that same gentleness to your family and community.”

“When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.”

Needs Doe Imagination Painting Limits Creating Ideals Paint Manifestation

Book:The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays

Source: The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays

“Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.”

Needs Passion Democracy Conversation Ideals Polite Parliament Polite Conversation

Book:Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government

Source: Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.”

Ifs Needs Should Believe Children Littles Might Able Faces Enjoy Realizing Rich Land Conditions Ideals Should Have Cease Silver Wealthy Child Of God Being Rich Smiling Faces

Author:Og Mandino

“Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.”

People Needs May Pain Moral Enemy Ideals Breaths Wine Excuse Awe Psycho Good Wine Inflicting Pain

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.”

Source: The Dharma Bums

“1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.”

“Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.”

Needs Mean Order Goal Can Do Rich Higher Achievement Ideals Finals Accomplishment Italian Doing Nothing Pray Love Eat Pray Love Book Best Eat Pray Love

Book:Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Source: Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.”

Thinking Needs Trying Perfect Democracy Clear Security Ideals Afghanistan National Security Ideal Society

Author:David Cameron

“This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.”

Men World Needs Past Lying Accepting Planets Civilization Ideals Bases Seeking Superiors Quests Other Worlds Prototype Needs Of Others Primeval

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.”

Needs Mean Christian Desire Love Is Duty Honor Ideals Loyalty Shoguns

Book:SHOGUN

Source: SHOGUN

“Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.”

Source: John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do