I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation. ~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs. ~By Karen McCarthy ~
I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term. ~By Chris Chocola ~
Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done. ~By Ken Salazar ~
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. ~By Marcel Proust ~
It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good. ~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. ~By Frank Adams ~
Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card. ~By Michael Bloomberg ~
After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District. ~By Bob Ney ~
It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good. ~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families. ~By Allen Boyd ~
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks. ~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus. ~By Allen West ~
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. ~By Juan Williams ~
A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity. ~By Stephen Chow ~
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less. ~By John Major ~
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. ~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services. ~By Kevin Rollins ~
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. ~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ~By Peter Drucker ~
I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer. ~By Teena Marie ~
We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families. ~By Jeb Bush ~
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully. ~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here. ~By Zoe Lofgren ~
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. ~By Abdul Kalam ~
Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is. ~By Sri Chinmoy ~
The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma. ~By Jose Serrano ~
By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done. ~By Buffy Sainte-Marie ~
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. ~By Dean Koontz ~
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. ~By Paul Brunton ~
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. ~By Lewis Mumford ~
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. ~By Chuck Hagel ~
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. ~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. ~By Rudyard Kipling ~
My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures. ~By Ashton Kutcher ~
The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now. ~By Timothy Pawlenty ~
No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one. ~By Bill Goldberg ~
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. ~By Stewart Alsop ~
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail. ~By Oliver Reed ~
It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there. ~By Jami Gertz ~
Nicol has great potential and there is a huge gap between her and the rest of the juniors. She needs to concentrate full time on the professional circuit from now on and it is the only way for her to realize her potential. ~By Jahangir Khan ~
And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole. ~By Daniel Libeskind ~
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time. ~By Benoit Mandelbrot ~
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. ~By Plato ~
The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications. ~By Marc Garneau ~
We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers. ~By Carl Paladino ~
America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States. ~By Rudy Giuliani ~
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out. ~By Kent McCord ~
When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides. ~By Walter Cronkite ~
The state of our state needs serious attention. ~By Mitch Daniels ~
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ~By Anthony Burgess ~
Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents. ~By Mel Martinez ~
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up. ~By Warren Spahn ~
Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario. ~By Matthew Sweet ~
It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place. ~By Boris Becker ~
And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does. ~By Margaret Spellings ~
I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.' ~By Kristen Stewart ~
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly. ~By James W. Black ~
The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first. ~By Rachel Bilson ~
But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years. ~By Bulent Ecevit ~
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net. ~By Cynthia Heimel ~
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities. ~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. ~By Ralph Nader ~
Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? ~By Elliot Richardson ~
We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed. ~By Annette Bening ~
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. ~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ~By Alan Turing ~
If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary. ~By Edward Hopper ~
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. ~By Adrienne Rich ~
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. ~By Albert Camus ~
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. ~By Carl Jung ~
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs. ~By Mel Carnahan ~
A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat. ~By Paul Westerberg ~
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. ~By Billy Sunday ~
The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. ~By Diane Wood ~
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. ~By Euripides ~
To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House. ~By Sarah Palin ~
There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now. ~By Susan Powter ~
In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children. ~By Charles W. Pickering ~
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. ~By Henry B. Adams ~
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs. ~By Sargent Shriver ~
Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. ~By Paul Hogan ~
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. ~By Franz Kafka ~
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. ~By Nhat Hanh ~
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. ~By Meister Eckhart ~
While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed. ~By John Engler ~
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. ~By Gerald R. Ford ~
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history. ~By Murray Gell Mann ~
There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates. ~By Glenn Turner ~
Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.' ~By Amy Adams ~
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. ~By Jean-Michel Basquiat ~
I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. ~By Marvin Minsky ~
Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job. ~By Thom Yorke ~
The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe. ~By Timothy Geithner ~
Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting. ~By Jane Fonda ~
What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. ~By Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn. ~By Roy Barnes ~
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. ~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ~By E. O. Wilson ~
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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