To Be Needed Quotes

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

Don't be scared to embrace the way that it hurts just to grow. You'll look back and your heart will thank you for not standing still when what you needed the most was to move forward

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.

The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.

However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.

When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.

It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

A mind to serve for the peace of all human beings in the world is needed in Aikido, and not the mind of one who wishes to be strong or who practices only to fell an opponent.

Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed

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.