“In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God.” KnowsNeedsBodyRunningAgeLastsPracticeDyingInformationIntellectualLowsBreadDustDryIncarnationOverloadInformation OverloadBread Of Life Author:Rachel Held Evans
“Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.” NeedsMindFirstsPersonsI CanProcessUnderstandingChristSinInformationInvolvedJudgmentConvincedDataSinnerRejectsSaviorExposedReach OutEvangelismUnbeliefGod Exists Author:R. C. Sproul
“Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.” NeedsShouldSometimesGovernmentSpeakInformationWillingSourceIntegrityWastePerformancesAbuseDollarsCommittedPartnersEmpoweringEmployeeFraudTaxpayersSpeaks OutWrongdoingSave A LifeBe EncouragedActs Of CourageWhistleblowersGovernment Employees Author:Barack Obama
“I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.” PeopleNeedsMindStatesTogetherBlackPiecesPlayerInformationChessStringsState Of MindFrankAccuratePsychicsScenariosMillenniumChess Players Author:Lance Henriksen
“China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentInformationChinaStealingChineseSensitiveHidingEmbarrassingEnrichingChinese Government Author:Chris Christie
“There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it.” PeopleKnowsNeedsKindChildrenHas BeensHardAbleChallengesWalksIssuesHavensInformationSouthDecadesAidsScalesSouth AfricaTestedVirusesHivStigmaHiv AidsPandemicsSub Saharan Africa Author:Annie Lennox
“We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.” ThinkingNeedsInformationSubstitutes Book:De Bono's Thinking Course Source: De Bono's Thinking Course
“It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.” NeedsYearsKindWholeStoriesUsedOrderStuffCompanyMillionsAudienceInformationNeededAccountsImpactBoringBunchUsed To BeConsumersSteamProcessingInformation Processing Author:Gabe Newell
“Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.” NeedsEnoughSituationInformationProductsBeatsManagementArchitectureSufficientGood EnoughMechanismUsersNot Good EnoughSuppliersCoordinating Author:Clayton Christensen
“What we were doing was trying to simply get the information we need once we learned from our vendor after the software glitch occurred that there had been a breach by the Sanders campaign staff, which I was glad to see senator [Bernie] Sanders acknowledge that was wrong and apologize for.” NeedsTryingInformationCampaignsGladAcknowledgeSoftwareStaffApologizingSenatorsBreachVendorsGlitches Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“If you have 15 minutes per visit, and you spend the first 9 minutes just collecting information from them, before you do anything else, you know half of your visit is gone already. So if you have an automated system that has most of that and, and in some cases I actually have patients complete questionnaires before they come in, so I'd gotten most of the information I need to ask about, already recorded, instead of having 9 minutes I can take 3 minutes to review all this information.” IfsKnowsNeedsFirstsI CanAsksHalfCasesGoneMinutesInformationPatientReviewsCollectingQuestionnairesCollecting Information Author:William Davis
“Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.” PeopleNeedsStillsStoriesInformationAmountTimely Author:Biz Stone
“o this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.” NeedsIdeasFailingAwarenessInformationWarningSkeptical Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“There's a bigger question again about how to do prevention. It's not simply about putting out the early warning. The early warning was put out on Abyei; everybody knew that this was coming. This was intentional, and still it happened. So this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of. I think it's about how you move that information into the policy process.” ThinkingNeedsStillsIdeasMovingProcessFailingHappenedAwarenessInformationPolicyBiggerWarningSkepticalPrevention Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“And it soon became obvious to me that I had to process and keep my relationship with my ex-wife separate from that of my children. They didn't need or want too much personal information about our relationship. Change is good, and ultimately, creating a new path at this point in my life is energizing, creative, and rejuvenating.” WantNeedsChildrenLife IsProcessCreativePathToo MuchWifeInformationCreatingObviousMy ChildrenOur RelationshipExesNew PathsEx WifeEnergizingChange Is GoodPersonal Information Author:Tim Matheson
“I try to most effectively and persuasively present our argument, in a way that gives other people the information they need to decide, on the merits, the wisdom of the path that the president has advocated.” PeopleWayNeedsGivingTryingPresidentPathInformationArgumentMerit Author:Josh Earnest
“I don't think that we can figure out what is going on in conscious colour perception just by phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms as well. We need to figure out what information is present in the mechanisms that constitute conscious colour perception.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWellsBrainFiguresInformationPerceptionConsciousColourMechanismIntrospection Author:David Papineau
“Again, when we view a scene fleetingly, do we consciously see all the details even though we don't retain them, or do we not see them in the first place? Neurological information is crucial to deciding these questions. After all, they are so interesting precisely because unaided introspection cannot resolve them. Rather we need to know what is going on in the brain activities that constitute visual awareness.” KnowsNeedsFirstsInterestingViewsBrainAwarenessInformationSceneActivityDetailsVisualsResolveCrucialIntrospection Author:David Papineau
“The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and behaviors they need to be effective in getting things done, we tell them almost the opposite - blandishments about how we wish people would be, and how we wish workplaces were. That information is worse than useless as, to the extent people believe it, they often wind up losing their jobs.” PeopleNeedsBelieveDoneWould BeJobsWishViewsInformationWindIndustrySkillsBehaviorLosingOppositesUselessBarriersWorkplaceThings DoneEffective LeadershipGetting Things Done Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.” PeopleNeedsUseHappensAbleGrowthDecisionInformationDevelopmentTrainingAdultsOppositesPersonal GrowthTreatedWorkplaceProfessional Development Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know what has been achieved and what future developments are promising and the reflective judgments of representatives of different groups who can identify what kinds of information are most urgently needed.” IfsKnowsNeedsKindHas BeensDifferentViewsGroupsInformationDevelopmentNeededJudgmentScientistSignificantAppropriateRepresentativesFuture Development Author:Philip Kitcher
“We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensCertainCultureSecretPracticeTeachingSpecialInformationBecomingEasierQuietBenefitsTraditionAccess Author:Sakyong Mipham
“If consumers weren't thinking this way, companies would be a lot less responsive. Right now, consumers don't really have a way to get information about where exactly their clothing is coming from - that's a barrier. We have labels on your eggs, "cage-free hens." They need to get something along those lines to allow the consumer to discriminate.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsWould BeLinesCompanyInformationRight NowLabelsConsumersBarriersEggsClothingsCagesHens Author:Pietra Rivoli
“In terms of what's going to actually happen to me in the story, down towards the end of the season, I'm dying to know, but I just don't ask. If it's something that I think will really affect how I play it and it's information I need to know, than I'll ask, for sure.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsEndsPlayStoriesHappensAsksTermDyingInformationSeasons Author:Peter Jacobson
“We do need the federal government to share information with us. We need local governments to increase supply. We need affordable places for people to live.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentShareInformationIncreaseLocalsFederal GovernmentAffordableLocal Government Author:Christy Clark
“Our laws and institutions are excellent, but the population is not yet ready. They must develop their views and need to be provided with the right information. We now also have private broadcasters and many are very critical of me, hostile even, yet they operate freely.” NeedsLawViewsInformationReadyInstitutionsPopulationCriticalExcellentHostileBroadcasters Author:Yoweri Museveni
“For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.” NeedsLongHas BeensEnoughStoriesBigsMightMovingNextPayAttentionMinutesMediaMissingInformationCommunicationEasierNewsHotPay AttentionThese DaysInstantScoreCyclesCoveredSixtyReportersOutletsNoveltyFiltersAlways MovingInstant CommunicationSixty Minutes Author:Arianna Huffington
“Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.” WayNeedsStoriesInformationInsufficient Author:Annie Leonard
“Our problems are solvable if they are clearly defined. To do so, we need to monitor our planetary life support systems the way doctors monitor a patient's vital signs and then use that information to protect ecosystem services as though our lives depend on it, because they do.” IfsWayNeedsUseProblemSupportOur LivesInformationDependsProtectDoctorsPatientDefinedEcosystemsSupport SystemsVital Signs Author:Edith Widder
“Americans are in need of very objective information, and sometimes it's easier to absorb the message through entertainment and through a great story than through the news outlets [where] everything is sensationalized. Not only are you getting information that sort of defies stereotypes, but you're also getting a wonderful story with hopefully good performances.” NeedsSometimesStoriesWonderfulInformationEasierMessagesNewsPerformancesEntertainmentObjectivesHopefullyStereotypeOutlets Author:Nia Long
“Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life” IfsNeedsYearsEnoughInformationMaterialsTwentiesRest Of Your Life Author:Natalie Goldberg
“There are myriad government programs out there to help small businesses. Few people use them effectively. The maze of information makes it difficult for any one person to understand it all, which often leads politicians, and citizens, too, to call for more programs. We don't need more government programs; we just need a better way to access them.” PeopleWayNeedsPersonsHelpingUseGovernmentDifficultInformationCitizensPoliticianProgramAccessSmall BusinessBetter WaysMazesGovernment Programs Author:Sher Valenzuela
“When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations.” PeopleThinkingWayWantNeedsEndsProblemTurnsSocialSimpleAbilityMoralCenturyInformationNeededStrategyAcquireEngineersMechanicCalculationsGhastlyOverestimateOverreaching Author:Allen W. Wood
“Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials; but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the way it jazzes people up, in the way it makes junkies out of us - junkies who need a constant stimulation, more information, more bells and whistles, more electronic wonders in order not to be bored.” PeopleWayNeedsOrderWonderTechnologyCreativeInformationConstantBoredBellsSeductiveJunkieStimulation Author:Parker J. Palmer
“You need strategies that help rule things out. That's the opposite of saying, "This is what my gut is telling me; let me gather information to confirm it."” NeedsHelpingInformationOppositesLet MeStrategyGuts Author:Gary A. Klein
“We need to make it very clear - whether it's Russia, China, Iran or anybody else - the United States has much greater capacity. And we are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.” NeedsStatesActorsUnitedUnited StatesClearGreaterInformationCapacityChinaRussiaIranPermitPrivate SectorPublic Sector Author:Hillary Clinton
“We have to make sure whenever you are dealing with big things like global warming, world security, refugees, the E.U. question, access to information, it needs to be done with an awareness that all of these things interconnect.” WorldNeedsDoneBigsAwarenessSecurityInformationAccessGlobal WarmingRefugeeBig ThingsAccess To Information Author:Birgitta Jonsdottir
“On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingFeelsI CanUsedInformationDadToolsMy DadRevolutionarySundaySermonsRecruit Author:Wyclef Jean
“I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.” ThinkingNeedsEasyActingInformationNewsGet Back Author:Barbara Boxer
“I think we need to get to the bottom of it. And I think there should be an investigation [of hackers attacks] because in order to defend ourselves against other adversarial countries, we have to protect our information.” ThinkingNeedsShouldCountryOrderInformationProtectBottomInvestigationHackers Author:Rand Paul
“One of the things that came out of the campaign, as I recall, was a high ranking [Hillary's] Clinton official, I believe, sent their password via email. We also need to learn how to protect our own information. And I think that's important as well.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveWellsImportantI BelieveInformationProtectClintonCampaignsOfficialsRecallsEmailRankingPasswords Author:Rand Paul
“Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That's all I need.” PeopleMenNeedsGivingAbleSpeakWaterSleepFrontsInformationDrinkGive Me Author:Kanye West
“I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.” NeedsLittlesLongI CanBitsCan DoSleepInformationLittle Bit Author:Kanye West