“I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.” ThinkingNeedsHumansBitsFireMissingContactFire Escapes Author:Jamie Oliver
“Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.” NeedsMomentsNiceAliveMissingFootballScotlandUp And DownHeartbeatStaying Alive Author:Gordon Strachan
“Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.” PeopleWantNeedsLooksMaySometimesPoliticalMissingPerspectivePsychologicalHaiti Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide
“My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.” IfsWayWantNeedsI CanHardPlayWishCausesPayAttentionClassTeacherMissingCouplePay AttentionDamnPianoBeltsCdsMommaMusic TeacherMy Momma Author:Ester Dean
“Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.” IfsNeedsRememberMissingCivilizationCivilizedDissentTurbulence Author:Will Durant
“After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed. Families have been torn apart. Many are still missing. Tens of thousands remain homeless. As the recovery proceeds, we in the Senate pledge to do everything in our power to help rebuild the shattered lives across the Gulf Coast.” NeedsHas BeensStillsHelpingGovernmentCommunityMissingRight NowVictimProfoundDisasterObligationRecoveryDestroyedSenateHomelessFederal GovernmentCoastTornPledgeHurricanesShatteredKatrinaThose In NeedHurricane KatrinaTorn Apart Author:Dianne Feinstein
“What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.” PeopleKnowsNeedsGivingArtistPiecesMissingPaintingStrategySculptureBusiness StrategyBest BusinessCatering Author:Daniel H. Pink
“Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveSometimesMomentsMotivationalRunningSacrificeConditionsMissingPresent MomentHere And NowTrue Life Author:Nhat Hanh
“Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.” NeedsPersonsTodayJesusMissing Author:E. Stanley Jones
“If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it.” IfsWayNeedsTryingHumansWonderMissingStartingHuman NeedsApplied Science Author:Edwin Land
“Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.” NeedsMeanMovingMissingMoving OnMissing SomeoneLetting Go And Moving OnMoving On In LifeJust Move OnMoving On Love Author:Macklemore
“Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, 'Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride!” PeopleNeedsChildrenLongKidsMissingDollarsShoesCuteHomelessHomeless People Author:Kathleen Madigan
“I'd had my whole life to write my first album. I had my No. 1 and my third single out, and they go, 'Hey, guess what? We need to start recording the next one.' I'm like, 'Uh oh, I got to write another album. Well, how am I gonna write 'Should've Been a Cowboy' and 'Ain't Worth Missing' and all that again?' It took me forever to write the first one.” NeedsShouldWritingFirstsWellsWholeNextForeverMissingThirdsAlbumsWhole LifeHeyCowboyThe Next One Author:Toby Keith
“Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.” NeedsCultureMissingObviousService Culture Author:Ron Kaufman
“To love, you have to admit your lack, and recognise that you need the other, that you miss him or her.” NeedsLove YouMissingRecognise Author:Jacques-Alain Miller
“The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.” NeedsFeelsHumansPlayPowerfulOur LivesMissingHuman Needs Author:Leo Buscaglia
“The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.” NeedsTryingStoriesTogetherPiecesMissingDiscoveryIncreaseExtraordinaryGapsLinksExtraordinary ThingsNew Discoveries Author:David Attenborough
“I don't have the desire that I think a lot of performers feel - to get the applause. It's not life or death for me. I love it and it's exciting, but it's not something I crave or miss, so I don't need to perform; I don't have that desire. I like to sing, and I love doing what I'm doing, but it's not a dire need.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsDesireMissingExcitingPerformersCraveApplauseLife Or Death Author:Olivia Newton-John
“To be an actor you need various things. You need to have a head for choosing the roles. You have to be, hopefully, easy to work with so people enjoy working with you. You have to deal with missing roles, with not being asked to work, with doing good work and then being castigated by the critics for it. You have to have a skin that can deal with all of that. I, fortunately, seem to have the makeup which allows me to deal with the business. I mean, not as everybody.” PeopleNeedsMeanSeemsActorsEasyEnjoyDealsRolesMissingSkinsCriticsVariousHopefullyMakeupGood WorkDoing Good Author:Jeremy Irons
“I miss the $2 bill, 'cause I can break a two. $20, no. $10, no. $5, maybe, $2? Oh yeah. What do you need, a one and another one?” NeedsI CanTwoHumorFunnyCausesBreakMissingYeahBills Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I hate turkeys. If you go to the grocery store, you start to get mad at turkeys. You see turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Somebody just needs to tell the turkeys, "Man, just be yourselves!" I already like you, little fella. I used to draw you. If you had a couple of fingers missing, you would draw a really messed-up turkey. That turkey was in an accident!” IfsMenNeedsLittlesHumorFunnyUsedHateMissingLike YouCoupleDrawsI HateMadFingersAccidentsStoresTurkeysGroceriesMessed UpHamGrocery StoresFellasBolognaPastrami Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.” IfsWayNeedsRealJobsAttentionMissingFieldsDependsLife And DeathManipulateGood WayDeadlineProcrastinatorTeaming Up Author:John Perry
“Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss.” NeedsMissing Author:Rob Thomas
“One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it may be unconscious, but it is a desire to connect more with nature. And with the natural rhythms. We [people] need that! We've been missing it.” PeopleNeedsMayReasonMovingDesireNaturalCitiesMissingConsciousRhythmUnconsciousTrendsMoving OutMissing It Author:Shakti Gawain
“If you start to give of yourself, be it ever so simple a fashion, the world will observe your spirit and show you many needs that you can supply. There are a hundred ways of giving away little margins of time you will never miss, which could be riches to someone.” IfsWorldWayNeedsGivingLittlesShowsSpiritSimpleFashionMissingHundredRichesMargins Author:David Dunn
“It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.” ThinkingNeedsEyeTurnsGoalPlansMagicMissingSticksSurpriseConclusionFixedUnexpectedContradictionAdviseSneakTrue YouUnexpected Places Author:Paul Reiser
“Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in too much of a rush--and she might spill something, or do it wrong. But whenever possible she needs to learn, error by error, lesson by lesson, to do better. And the more she is able to learn by herself the more she gets the message that she's a kid who can.” WantNeedsChildrenSometimesMightKidsAbleOpportunityToo MuchMissingLessonsMessagesErrorsSpills Book:Whole child, whole parent Source: Whole child, whole parent
“The first time I was asked whether women can "have it all" was at the Miss America pageant. I said no. I didn't mean that women shouldn't fully pursue their dreams, only that we need to be honest with ourselves.” NeedsFirstsMeanSaidDreamAmericaHonestMissingFirst TimePursueBeing HonestPageantMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“What's missing from the online experience is community. Married couples are still going to need something to do on Tuesday nights, right? And it's not going to be individually retiring to their offices to watch on their computers. It's: "We just put the meat loaf dishes away, let's go watch television." It's going to happen. We shouldn't be so led around by other models.” NeedsStillsHappensNightCommunityWatchesMissingTelevisionCoupleOfficeComputerMarriedModelsMeatOnlineRetiringDishesTuesdayMarried CouplesTuesday Night Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.” PeopleNeedsLittlesPoliticalDifferencesPartyFantasyMissingColdConcernEnvironmentalObjectivesRationalRhetoricPolitical PartiesFlexibleEnvironmentalismFranticApolitical Author:Michael Crichton
“We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.” ThinkingWorldNeedsLooksThreeOpportunitySocialCenturyMissingIndustryReturnDiversityAreasFinancialProfitExtremesEnormousFinanceZeroEntityReverseSpectrumAstonishingNon ProfitSocial Entrepreneurship Author:Bill Drayton
“People don't need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And those who don't, but could afford to, are missing out on one of wealth's greatest luxuries.” PeopleNeedsGivingReasonInspirationWealthMissingLuxuryJustifyMissing Out Author:Andrew Tobias
“People need to be given enough so that they feel like they're not missing something. There's a thing that you have when you watch a movie where, if you feel like you're not following and you're going to get tested on it later, you're going to get disengaged. So, you have to give people just enough information, so that they're able to keep up with the story.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingFeelsEnoughStoriesAbleGivenWatchesMissingInformationLike YouFollowingTestedMissing Something Author:Mark Waters
“While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsSometimesFeelingsPrayerAnswersPowerfulVisionRiskMissingQuietExpectationsGainsManifestationDramaticTestimonyConvincingOur PrayersReassuringJoseph SmithUnrealistic Expectations Author:Allan F. Packer
“Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsImportantStoriesFilmLaughingMissingCryEmotionalImpactIngredientsLevity Author:Cary Fukunaga
“Nobody needs a cookie. You will never get your lab results back, Well, apparently, Miss Bexim what you need - and I am a doctor, I've never seen this before - some sort of a cookie. You're actually too healthy. You need a cookie.” NeedsWellsResultsMissingHealthyDoctorsCookiesLabs Author:Dom Irrera
“We need to focus our attention on Iran, because if you miss Iran, you are not going to get ISIS. The two are inextricably connected because one causes the other.” IfsNeedsTwoCausesAttentionFocusMissingConnectedIranIsis Author:Chris Christie
“With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.” PeopleIfsNeedsAmericaThreeCan DoTechnologyMissingObjectsHugeRevolutionCostBlowCorporateFuelMicrosoftGarageCorporate America Author:Steve Jobs
“Now I am practicing as well as a criminal defense lawyer in handling appeals. The court of appeals appointed me to handle cases and although that's not trial work and I don't have to go to court, it kind of satisfies the need I have to practice still and I have transitioned into readiness not to be in trial anymore. It took a little while for me to get used to not doing it and I did miss it for a few years, but eventually I transferred into another life.” NeedsYearsWellsKindLittlesStillsUsedPracticeCasesMissingCourtDefenseCriminalsLawyerTrialsHandleAppealsReadinessAnother LifeCriminal Defense Author:Marcia Clark
“We have other opposite problems with circadian rhythms that can happen when you - a lot of times with older adults. They start to go to bed at 6:00, 7:00 at night and they wake up at 2:00 in the morning. And they're rhythms actually shift earlier, but sometime it can just kind of miss the mark and shift too much earlier and that's when we need to treat it with bright light.” NeedsKindProblemLightHappensNightMorningToo MuchMissingBedAdultsOppositesTreatsMarkWake UpRhythmBright LightsCircadian RhythmOlder Adults Author:Shelby Harris
“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
“Your friends will need you, too, someday. Maybe not in the same way, maybe not in cash and shelter, but they'll need you - to listen without judging, to invite them over when they're lonely, to show up for their events, to register in whatever way matters to them that they matter to you. Be on the lookout for these opportunities to give back, and do whatever is in your power not to miss many of them.” WayNeedsGivingMatterShowsOpportunityMissingEventsJudgingLonelySomedayInvitesCashShelterGiving BackNeed YouRegister Author:Carolyn Hax
“I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he needs to get the band back together.” NeedsYearsTogetherCrazyMissingBandYears AgoRoseClubsRanBack Together Author:Steven Tyler
“You are worthy! Let those words sink deep into your heart. You are worthy. Life can get overwhelming for us, as our busy schedules keep us on our toes. Sometimes we forget that we need to intentionally slow down, take a deep breath, and remind ourselves of our purpose, the very foundation of why we do what we do. When we neglect to quiet our souls and rest in God's amazing grace, we miss out on the intimate opportunities where God assures us of our worthiness, clarifies our purpose, and strengthens us to endure each day.” NeedsHeartSoulSometimesPurposeOpportunityForgetGraceMissingQuietBreathsFoundationEndureBusyWorthyIntimateEach DayNeglectOverwhelmingSchedulesToesSlow DownWorthinessDeep BreathTake A Deep BreathAmazing GraceWhy We Do What We DoBusy Schedules Author:Jennifer E. Smith
“We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting to look at the ways in which world changing today totally misses everything that was valuable.” WorldWayNeedsLooksTodayInterestingMissingValuableReally InterestingBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.” PeopleKnowsMenNeedsBookFilmHouseKnow HowDyingMissingHeroOvercomingYeahExcitementWho We AreBalletOperaClassical MusicMiss Julie Author:Liv Ullmann
“We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.” NeedsYearsLittlesStillsKidsDifferencesHalfMillionsMissingHugeAdultsKillingDataDozenHivVaccinesMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject. That's what's missing.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingLongDifferentRunningSubjectsMissingTypeCodeDesignerDisabilityArchitectLong RunsInteriorsCubesGuidelinesPeople With DisabilitiesInterior Designer Author:Itzhak Perlman
“I was not interested at all in Formula One when I left; I was very busy with my airline. But slowly I started missing the adrenaline rush and the driving of such fantastic cars at the limit. In reality this urge never disappears when you're a top driver, because I think we're a different breed of people, we need to take chances, we need to push ourselves to the limit all the time, that sort of thing. It stays with you, although you can kill it by losing motivation or other things in your life, but it never leaves you forever.” PeopleThinkingNeedsDifferentRealityMotivationLeftChanceForeverCarMissingLimitsLosingBusyDisappearDrivingFantasticUrgesDriversFormulasNot InterestedTake A ChanceAirlineAdrenalineFormula OneAdrenaline Rush Author:Niki Lauda
“When I was on tour, people would say "We don't need a value-based currency, we can go out and buy gold and silver with US dollars now." I mean that it is so utterly brain dead, because they miss the whole point: the reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.” PeopleNeedsMeanReasonWholeGovernmentValuesBrainMissingDisciplineGoldDollarsFinancialSilverBad ThingsCurrencyGold And SilverFinancial SystemBrain Dead Author:Bernard von NotHaus