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“The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.”

Firsts Psychology Becoming Needed Uniqueness Hints Outlines Supplies Orderly Acquiring Knowledge

Book:Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

Source: Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

“True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.”

Giving Compassion Needed

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.”

People Knows Mean Two Play Shows Song Stars Memories Focus Rocks Tvs Needed Pure Elements Musician Guitar Rounds Rhythm Just One Tv Shows Rock Star Entertainers Early Work

Author:Pete Townshend

“Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us.”

Men World Mean Whole Ability Behinds Needed Disaster Whole World Radical Sinner Technological Catastrophe Civility Radical Change

Author:Billy Graham

“This last year I kind of stopped working out. I think my body just needed a break. And so I did that, and focused more on feeling good as opposed to beating myself up.”

Thinking Years Kind Feelings Body Lasts Break Needed Work Out Focused Feel Good Last Year

Author:Gwen Stefani

“I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.”

People Character Stories Felt Laughing Alive Cry Needed Angry I Realized Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Making People Happy

Author:Dakota Johnson

“Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.”

Ifs Past Needed Comforting

Book:The Decameron of Giovanni Bocaccio

Source: The Decameron of Giovanni Bocaccio

“Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.”

Christian Parent Church Divine Needed Quaker

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.”

Children Book House Havens Needed Rain Protection Permanence

Author:Frederick Buechner

“I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.”

Needs School America Term Focus Teacher Needed Paid Funding Deserving

Author:Sarah Palin

“Whether or not it needed to happen, I'm still convinced it needed to happen.”

Stills Happens Needed Convinced

Author:George W. Bush

“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.”

Needs Years Kind Whole Stories Used Order Stuff Company Millions Audience Information Needed Accounts Impact Boring Bunch Used To Be Consumers Steam Processing Information Processing

Author:Gabe Newell

“Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.”

Different Play Hands School Girl Found Father Language Decision Class Rich Taken Needed Moved Moved On Shakespeare's Plays

Author:Felicity Kendal

“If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.”

Ifs Giving Writing Years Children Stories Found Lost Magic Needed If I Could Telling The Truth Swear Chasing Thirteen Vindication Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

“All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.”

Light Action Law Political Struggle Policy Needed Window Climate Protection Lists Phases Making Changes Treaties Civics Bulbs Light Bulb Political Action

Author:Al Gore

“I'm in love with football, but I just needed to recapture that strength to train and play. So many people helped me along the way that I'm afraid to leave anyone out. Above all, though, I want to mention the help of my medical team that has been working alongside me for the past two years.”

People Way Want Years Has Beens Two Play Helping Past Team Football Needed Train Medical Two Years

Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.”

Ifs Needed Fats

Author:Jewel

“We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.”

Men Whole Earth Needed Paradise Festivals

Author:Rajneesh

“Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.”

Littles Needed Ego Detachment

Author:Rajneesh

“Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.”

Should Firsts Children Done Natural Environment Development Needed Normal Red Bases Obstacles Remove True Nature Departure Flowering Natural Gifts

Author:Maria Montessori

“I still trust my penalty sytem and will be there when I'll be needed.”

Stills Needed Penalties

Author:Thomas Muller

“I`m a sexual assault survivor. I have long felt like Bill Cosby needed to be held accountable. But I keep wondering if this is a system that can bring that accountability.”

Ifs Long Felt Wonder Needed Bills Accountability Survivor Assault Sexual Assault

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“It's getting to the point where, to be honest with you, even though there is a lot of great music around, especially in clubland, certainly from my corner of something I just felt like I needed to get my hands dirty and DJ out.”

Hands Felt Honest Needed Corners Being Honest Dirty Great Music Djs

Author:Erol Alkan

“I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown. They needed somebody who can travel on the weekends and go up to eight different cities.”

Different Next Nations Cities Judging Needed Eight Nba Weekend Hooked Slam Slam Dunk Showdowns

Author:Darryl Dawkins

“I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.”

Knows Writing Film Know How Pieces Needed Easier Paper Access Shy Filmmaking Pencils

Author:Paul Auster

“When we came to America, the movies here needed a "new wave." European films looked totally different than American movies, which were these lush, glossy pictures with this elaborate production design.”

Different America Film Design Needed Wave Productions American Movie Lush Production Design

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.”

People Needed I Realized

Author:Jens Lekman

“My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.”

Ifs Different Guy Three Father Morning Needed Areas Doctors Patient Get Up Gentle Humanist Old Fashioned Gps Great Guy

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and snowboarding. If my brother was mowing the lawn, I had to mow the lawn. If my brother was using a hammer, I needed to use a hammer. I've always been a little bit of a feminist.”

Ifs Trying Littles Use Kids Bits Boys Brother Needed Little Bit Feminist My Brother Hammers Always Trying Lawns Skateboarding Snowboarding Mowing Mowing The Lawn

Author:Daria Werbowy

“My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."”

Past Secret Needed Husband Eating Prison Dirty My Husband Dirty Secrets

Author:Patricia McConnell

“I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.”

Art Ideas Hate Voice Brain Streets Needed Cost I Hate Street Art

Author:M.I.A.

“But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a colostomy bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized by past abuse, it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."”

Ifs Persons Book Stories Body Wanted Past Wish Felt Stuff Talking Happened Needed Abuse Cancer Bags Slips Mentality Fart Wanted Someone

Author:Eve Ensler

“The people at the label were great but at the end of the day our visions didn't match up and I knew I had to do it my way. The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made. It was a hard decision to make, but I've never regretted it for a second and it's only become more clear to me after making and releasing Stairwells that it was the right one.”

People Way Made Important Ends Hard Decision Vision Clear Needed Majors Made It My Way Labels The End Of The Day Signing Never Regret Hard Decision

Author:Kina Grannis

“I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not, to think of it as sovereign because you're not there. I was always in the center of where I needed to be.”

Thinking Giving Space Needed Advantage Outsiders Sovereign

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors. We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them. This movie shows that perspective from Scott's character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It's a nice little twist.”

“Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.”

Firsts Enough Shows Wanted Sides Term Teaching Students Needed Skills Concerned Assuming I Realized Relate Good Enough Allies Providence Oakland

Author:Pedro Noguera

“All kids are different, even when they come from you and theoretically have the same culture. Some of my kids had been more outgoing and had an easy time at school. Others were more shy and needed more support. As a parent you are very aware of these differences and are not treating them all the same, given who they are as people.”

People Different Kids School Culture Given Easy Parent Differences Support Needed Shy Outgoing

Author:Pedro Noguera

“In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.”

Writing Trying Kind Character Stories Able Moving Order Views Needed Distance Irony Screenplays Sentimentality Distance Myself

Author:Hirokazu Koreeda

“I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.”

Kind Book Social Community Company Design Mines Taught Needed Decided Designer Jackets Graphic Blogging Social Network Web Design Graphic Designer

Author:Biz Stone

“I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Said House Forget Needed Phones Miles Cells Thirty Coming Out Cell Phone Forget You

Author:Biz Stone

“I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."”

People War Political Fighting Needed Let Me Bigger Committed Defense Tonight Cocaine Let Me Go

Author:Lynne Stewart

“Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.”

People Enemy Needed Ultimate Agents Lgbt Convenient Putin

Author:Masha Gessen

“Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.”

Giving Fiction Steps Happened Events Needed Distance Explaining

Author:Kathleen Rooney

“I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.”

World Writing Whole Stories Wanted Space Needed Whole World Short Story Small Spaces Compression Exactitude

Author:Debra Dean

“Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.”

“I realized early on in writing the book that it needed to be from a family point of view, and that nobody outside the family would weigh in. And then well into writing it, the question became how to balance the perspectives; how to switch between chapters.”

Writing Wells Book Views Perspective Needed Balance Point Of View I Realized Chapters

Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff

“I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school.”

Enough School Interest Needed Competition Labels Good Enough Minors Right Time

Author:Brooke Fraser

“I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I saw it coming, and I did intentionally not cut it from some of the final drafts. In other words, I'm not particularly interested in encouraging readers to read certain stories that way, but I want to make sure that route's accessible should anyone be so inclined.”

Way Want Should Firsts Stories Political Certain Reading Saws Cutting Materials Reader Needed Finals Sooner Or Later Routes Raw Materials

Author:Roy Kesey

“My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image and needed attention. It's hard for people who haven't been prostitutes to imagine, but I think it's often true. There can be a very symbiotic relationship happening.”

People Thinking Self Hard Poor Attention Imagine Havens Needed Happenings Empowered Poor Self Image

Author:Annie Sprinkle

“I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the state was poor and when citizens wanted to set something up, they needed to collect money themselves. Historically, this was different in Europe. There used to be a strong state, a monarch or a king. He provided money.”

Knows Different States Wanted America Used Asks Strong Poor Kings Needed Citizens Europe University Used To Be Monarchs Endowment American Universities

Author:Zhang Xin

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