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“In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger wherever that may have come from. As I got older, it became or is coming more from a place of wanting to use the craft to help others in some way, to hold a mirror up to the situations that we're going through, to actually be more cautious about the way that I use the power of film and to see if there's anything that I can do in the performances that will resonate in the public a similar string that's on people's minds and is on my mind. That way we have that relationship.”

People Ifs Way Needs Mind May I Can Helping Use Film Passion Energy Can Do Acting Situation Rocks Performances Mirrors Helping Others Crafts Strings Punk Cautious Punk Rock

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.”

Knows Men Needs Should Different Imagination Situation Psychology Brother Habit Men And Women Constitution Species Brothers And Sisters

Book:The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.”

Needs Wells Children Ideas Feelings Certain Values Wish Parent Understanding Results Situation Produce Particular Ought Behavior Flow Relation Our Children Method Predictable

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.”

Needs Water Situation Dirty Purity Cleanliness Cleaners Dirty Water

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“My father . . . used to say, 'I need my anger. It obliges me to take action.' I think my father was partly right. Anger arises, naturally, to signal disturbing situations that might require action. But actions initiated in anger perpetuate suffering. The most effective actions are those conceived in the wisdom of clarity.”

Thinking Needs Might Action Used Suffering Father Situation Arise Clarity Signals Disturbing

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.”

Needs Enjoy Challenges Situation Gains Tasks

Book:The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma

Source: The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma

“NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.”

Thinking Needs Feelings Situation Doubt Nice Guts Dishes Employers Closing Buyers Too Nice

Book:Top Girls

Source: Top Girls

“Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create a situation where the amount demanded is greater than the amount supplied - a shortage - fear of losing customers is no longer as strong an incentive. For example, landlords typically reduce painting and repairs when there is rent control, because there is no need to fear vacancies when there are more tenants looking for apartments than there are apartments available.”

Needs Strong Quality Situation Greater Example Painting Products Amount Losing Available Customers Apartment Incentives Shortage Sellers Landlord Tenants Vacancy Rent Control

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible.”

“Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security.”

Needs Situation Security International Ingredients National Security Aspirin Peacekeeping

Author:Jean-Marie Guehenno

“I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It's not that we need more food. It's that we need to manage our food system better.”

People Knows Needs Happens Certain Individual Situation Strange Species Fats Manage Assertion Ecosystems Fat People

Author:Bill Nye

“Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.”

Needs Firsts Reality Situation Records Cutting Middle Tables Lays Pops Organs Surgery Rip Anesthetics

Author:Gerard Way

“In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.”

“Men need to be strong, but not bullies. They need to know how to not get emotionally lost in situations, but not be cold and emotionless. They need to know the full variety of emotions as well as thinking and acting. Not just the most limited ways of doing things.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Needs Wells Lost Strong Acting Emotion Situation Know How Cold Variety Bully

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“Doing meditation you may need to experiment to discover what kinds of thoughts are best for your own unique interests and situation. For you it might be a repetitive "mantra," or simply an open state of watching your breath, like in the Buddhist tradition.”

Needs Kind May States Might Interest Situation Meditation Unique Tradition Breaths Experiments Buddhist Mantras Repetitive Doing Me

Author:Tim McCarthy

“We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.”

People Needs Enough Wanted Grows Business Situation Economy Products Demand Creating Mercy Customers Artificial Frustrated Need You Catalogues Don't Need You

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.”

“Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal knowledge to the common man will also a go a long way in improving the law and order situation in the country.”

“Theoretically, the human is supposed to be the smart one. Well, if we are, then we need to be able to adjust to fit the situation rather than just think "Well this is how you work with horses. I've done this on 500 just like you."”

Ifs Thinking Needs Humans Wells Done Able Situation Like You Fit Smart Horse Supposed To Be

Author:Buck Brannaman

“Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.”

Needs Opportunity Situation Support Built Tools Attraction Things In Life Support You

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.”

Needs Past Force Leadership Situation Lessons Draws Tasks Recognise Analogies Need A Change Statesmanship New Situations

Book:Malcolm Fraser on Australia

Source: Malcolm Fraser on Australia

“Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.”

Needs Should Mind Firsts Has Beens Past Moving Mistake Situation Negative Should Have Forgiving Release Our Past Your Past Let It Go Hostage Forgive Yourself Replay

Author:Les Brown

“In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.”

Knows Needs Situation Relationship Our Relationship Nobody Knows Amazing Life

Author:John Oates

“You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.”

Needs Understanding Situation Judgment Graphic

Author:William Scranton

“We can each rest in the knowledge that God is sovereign over our life's situation. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.”

Needs Made Matter Today Past Given Mistake Situation Our Lives Right Now Sovereign Glorify

Author:Joshua Harris

“We will always be attracted to the situation or person that we need, in any given moment, in order to learn whatever lesson that we need to learn. The most important thing is to learn the lesson quickly, let go, and then move on.”

Needs Persons Important Moments Moving Order Given Situation Lessons Letting Go Important Things

Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.”

Needs Able Actors Situation Attributes Tailors

Author:Jay Baruchel

“That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?”

People Way Needs Found Situation Stage Distance Links Retiring Reach Out Better Ways Precarious

Author:Victor Borge

“There's so much art and it's gotten so flashy. In the global marketplace, having art that's shiny and has neon lights is almost what you need for anyone to notice it in an art fair situation - and art fairs seem to be more and more the only thing there is.”

Needs Art Light Seems Situation Fairs Marketplace Neon Flashy Neon Lights

Author:Jim Shaw

“Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.”

Needs Humans Important Sometimes Able Grows Human Beings Situation Determination Persistence Cop Being Wrong

Author:Sasha Grey

“I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it's a dialog scene, if it's a love scene, it doesn't matter because you need to establish a situation.”

Ifs Needs Matter Happens Actors Acting Situation Scene Interchange

Author:Taylor Hackford

“I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Needs Firsts Girl Women Situation Hair Self Love Love Yourself Bad Day Inspirational Women Every Girl Best Family Love Yourself First Having A Bad Day Family Problems

Author:Julianne Hough

“When you are influential and highly respected, people tend to tell you what you want to hear, not what you need to hear. They are seeking your approval, or they flatter you. Unfortunately, this creates a gap between what you hear and reality. If you find yourself in that situation, you will need to work extra hard to get the people close to you to speak honestly into your life. And you will have to become highly intentional in observing and listening.”

People Ifs Want Needs Hard Reality Speak Situation Listening Seeking What You Want Honestly Extras Finding Yourself Gaps Approval Observing Influential

Author:John C. Maxwell

“No outward thing - nothing, nobody from without - can hurt me inside, psychologically. I recognized that I could only be hurt psychologically by my own wrong actions, which I have control over; by my own wrong reactions (they are tricky, but I have control over them too); or by my own inaction in some situations, like the present world situation, that need action from me. When I recognized all this how free I felt! And I just stopped hurting myself.”

World Needs Action Felt Hurt My Own Situation Reactions Tricky Inaction Hurt Me Hurting Myself Wrong Actions

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a defeatist or negative thought. Since we create through thought, we need to concentrate very strongly on positive thoughts. If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can. It is important that our thoughts be constantly for the best that could happen in a situation - for the good things we would like to see happen.”

Ifs Thinking Needs May Important Happens Powerful Situation Negative Good Things Very Strong Positive Thoughts Our Thoughts Negative Thoughts

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.”

“I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.”

Needs Fun Situation Occasions Having Fun Settling Settling Down

Author:Chase Utley

“I like to challenge hitters with a 'Here it is, hit it,' mentality. It's definitely a big part of my game, especially when I get in situations where I need it. I usually save a little bit so it's there for me.”

Needs Littles Bigs Games Bits Challenges Situation Little Bit Mentality

Author:Justin Verlander

“We [Afghanistan] are constantly dealing with situations in which we must ensure that provinces or major cities do not fall into enemy hands. People need to understand that we don't have an air force and the forces that we do have used to get air support from NATO, which is no longer available. Our pilots have done wonders, but they are stretched thin. We are dealing with resources that have been spread thin.”

People Needs Has Beens Done Hands Used Fall Force Cities Situation Wonder Enemy Support Air Majors Resources Available Spread Afghanistan Pilots Provinces Nato Air Force

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don't need just nudges.”

Thinking Needs Should Law Political Situation Judgment Murder Driving Drunk Fraud Nudge Drunk Driving

Author:Richard Thaler

“When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.”

Needs Persons Speak Views Situation Blame Careful Point Of View Criticize Be Careful Edits

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable.”

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.”

People Needs Situation Leader Environment Response

Book:Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

“Whenever we give help, we unfailingly see that the answer to all our needs is already within the very situation we think is hurting us. By becoming totally open and harmless, we see that there is no one who cannot help us and no instant when we are not surrounded by God's love and His guiding presence.”

Thinking Needs Giving Helping Hurt Answers Situation Becoming Instant God's Love

Author:Gerald Jampolsky

“Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.”

Needs Trying Enough Character Use Running My Own Situation Translate Veins

Author:Noomi Rapace