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"A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to."
"Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness."
"I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere."
"Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?"
"Be sure they sleep not whom God needs."
"If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason."
"Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'"
"What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die."
"This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian."
"Disability need not be an obstacle to success."
"we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts."
"Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior."
"A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them."
"If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. You can't have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life."
"With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side. You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side."
"Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense."
"I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about."
"Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever."
"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."
"My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another."
