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This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.
- Paulo Coelho

Insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there. We've all felt that. And all of us, one way or another, are insane.
- Paulo Coelho

Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.
- Paulo Coelho

You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.
- Gracie Allen

When I finally let someone into my narrow bed, the first thing I told her was what I could not do. I said, I can't fix it, girl. I can't fix anything. If you don't as me to fix it, you can ask anything else. If you can say what you need, I'll try to give it to you.
- Dorothy Allison

Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That's all you need to know in this life...just the certainty that God's got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning's a sin, it's pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I'm fine.
- Dorothy Allison

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the you expect.
- Lisa Kleypas

I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am"
"Unbelievable," I said in disgust.
"What's unbelievable?"
"Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!
- Lisa Kleypas

You know what, you need to stay out of my bedroom. You have your own."
He smiled. "I know I do. I see it quite often. I just prefer your bed. It smells better."
I made a face. "It smells better? What does your bed smell like? Regret and bad taste?
- Jennifer L Armentrout

There are ways to get what you need out of your warrior. You just must be clever in finding them
- Kristen Ashley

What you need to give me is to know it is not about you, it's about me, you gotta suck it up and stand by me, you gotta know, in the end, I'll work my ass off to make it all worth it to you and you gotta always remember I love you and I have never, not once, said those words to any breathing soul so you also gotta know what that means.
- Kristen Ashley

You lose anyone, there's no replacing them. What you need to get is that's precious, you get to keep that, you don't want to replace it. That doesn't mean you can't find something else just as good.
- Kristen Ashley

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
- Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo

I thought that I needed a church and hundreds of guests and music that
actually sounded like music, but I was wrong.
What I needed was a drunken priest, irreverent guests, and a companion
who learned to play piano from a goat."

"Then you got exactly what you needed."

"I suppose so. But then again, all I really needed was you.
- Julia Quinn

When you can't get what you want, get what you need
- Benny Bellamacina

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
- Haruki Murakami

Entrust your dreams and goals to people who will cheer you on and inspire you, who will tell you what you need to hear rather than what you want to hear so you can move forward and fast track.
- Rachael Bermingham

Leadership is what you need to learn next
- Robert Kiyosaki

Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
-Carmen's grandmother
- Ann Brashares

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
- Ann Brashares

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
- Zig Ziglar

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
- E A Bucchianeri

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.
- Bill Budge

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand other people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.
- Charles Bukowski

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same," Dad said. "Fairness means everyone gets what
they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself
- Rick Riordan

Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.
- Rick Riordan

But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.
- Stephen Chbosky

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
- Cameron Van Der Burgh

I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.
- Deb Caletti

The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
- Kate Capshaw

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
- Stephen King

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
- Bernard Of Clairvaux

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
- Hunter S Thompson

The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared.
- Bill Condon

When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.
- Rodolfo Costa

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.
- Marion Cotillard

For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.
- Sidney Crosby

First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.
- Lilith Saintcrow

Used
You don't see me
Blind to the real me
I'm not who you think I should be
But I can't be someone I'm not
I'll try to be who you need,
what you need,
I fail again
tear me, cut me make me bleed
If it opens your heart to me
Just don't leave me with nothing
less than nothing
Like the last time
use me
It's better than existing without you
- Olivia Cunning

Well then, take this thought with you for the dark hours to come: It is a ludicrous fiction that love conquers all, but it can, in fact, conquer quite a lot. I am Iason of the Blood, Knight of Arthur, King of the Britons, reborn into dark service in the year of Our Lord five hundred and sixty. My power is vast, and for none to arrogate but by my will and decree. My services are engaged, Selina. Tell me what you need to ease your pain in this, and it is yours.
- Chris Dee

What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?
- Sarah Dessen

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
- Bernadine Dohrn

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The most degrading cross has always produced the greatest glory and force, as long as the humility of the martyrdom is sincere. But do you have that humility? What you need is not a challenge but infinite humility and humiliation! You mustn't despise those who judge you, but believe in them sincerely, as in a great church; then you will triumph over them and turn them toward you by your example, and you will be united in love--ah, if only you could endure it!
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!"
"Nah," Martin said. "She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.
- Clare B Dunkle

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.
- Jeanne Duprau

You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.
- David Duval

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
- E F Schumacher

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
- Jerome K Jerome

If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.
- Jane Fonda

The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that stupid inner voice we all have. It knows what you need and will drive you shit crazy until you listen to it.
- Dorothea Benton Frank

Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need."
- James Patterson

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
- Morgan Freeman

All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn't keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone.
- Jeaniene Frost

You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.
- Jeaniene Frost

Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.
- Robert Fulghum

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.
- Neil Gaiman

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
- Bob Geldof

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.
- Susan George

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
- Alberto Giacometti

You are the best person I've met in years, and if I'd met you in a year's time, or maybe even a few months, I know we could be happy together, but I can't give you what you need.
- Jane Green

Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.
- Laurell K Hamilton

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
- Dorothy Height

The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.
- Andy Hertzfeld

Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.
- Khaled Hosseini

Okay, then I'll just say I love you. There is nothing in this world more important to me than you are. I'm only content when you're near. My whole purpose is to be what you need me to be. It's not poetry, but it's from my heart. Will that do?
- Colleen Houck

Thank God for what you have, and trust God for what you need
- Shearon Hurst

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
- Molly Ivins

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.
- P D James

Slow down you're doing fine
You can't be everything you want to be
Before your time
Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight
Too bad but it's the life you lead
You're so ahead of yourself
That you forfeit what you need
Though you can see when you're wrong
- Billy Joel

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.
- Neil Jordan

Sometimes you have to lose what you have in order to gain what you need.
- Katie Kacvinsky

Aw, naw, ain't sayin that. You do what you need an ain't try telling you no, but ... takin you to bed, want you there, not just your body. An want you knowin it's me. Love you, Chess. Dig?
- Stacia Kane

Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Jackie patted her on the shoulder, "you know what you need?"
Ash peeked out from between her fingers."Eight hours of rest before tomorrows exam? Bug spray that repels assholes?
- Karsten Knight

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.
- Rem Koolhaas

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
- Charles Kuralt

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
- Jack Lalanne

Sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need.
- Wally Lamb

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
- Maya Lin

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.
- Charles De Lint

When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.
- Sydney Madwed

You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need, tell me why I should help, and I'll see what I can do. In memory of Elphaba. You knew her." Her head titled again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. "You knew my Elphie!
- Gregory Maguire

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.
- John Mayer

I need another drink!" I said as a second attempt to change the subject.
"Shots!" America yelled.
Shepley rolled his eyes. "Oh, yeah. That's what you need, another shot.
- Jamie Mcguire

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
- Thomas Merton

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
- Jessye Norman

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.
- Mike Norton

Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.
- Jenny O Connell

I wasn't the same person I was eight months ago, and that was okay with me. Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.
- Jenny O Connell

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.
- Joel Osteen

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.
- Al Pacino

Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what you need to become.
- Cynthia A Patterson

Need is a weak word. has nothing to do with what people get. Ain't what you need that matters. It's what you do.
- Robert Newton Peck

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
- Munshi Premchand

I have a vested interest in this thing because I want to see you happy. What you need to ask yourself is this: Are you a better person when you're with him? Are you kinder or smarter or happier? Do you think you do more good in the world? One man can be perfectly fine but maybe he doesn't bring out what's good in you, in which case I suggest you not be with him. But if you find a man who makes you better then you need to listen to that.
- Jeanne Ray

I care for you-you're precious to me. And one of the most precious things to me is your voice. Please tell me what you want, what you need, what you desire..
- Sylvain Reynard

I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.
- Susan Rice

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.
- Guy Ritchie

The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.
- Dayron Robles

You don't need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that's right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars... five thousand dollars per bullet... You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders.
- Chris Rock

I can't stay. I know what I want and you can't give it to me, and I can't give you what you need.
- James E Rogers

Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
- Carlos Santana

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
- Arthur Scargill

When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.
- Diane Setterfield

I think you want very much to make this black and white--to make us all out to be sinners or saints. But it's just not that simple. I think what you need to accept is that, just maybe, we're all something else. Maybe we're all something in between.
- Marie Sexton

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.
- Blake Shelton

I wouldn't do this if i didn't care, but you mean everything to me, and if this is what you need, then this is what you'll get. But we're damned well going to work on changing this association between caring and spanking.
- Cherise Sinclair

Now, can I help you with something? I'm new, but I'll do my best to figure out how to get what you need."
...
"That's good to hear, Abby, since I need your breasts for a few minutes.
- Cherise Sinclair

what you need and what you want aren't the same things,
- Cherise Sinclair

And if they really fuck it up and do make a horrible mistake, which can happen to anyone, from any culture, you still have to sit back and watch from the sidelines. It's their life. What you need is a life of your own. You can't hang on to them forever and live theirs or stop them from making mistakes. That's the deal. Once they grow up, they belong to themselves, not to us.
- Danielle Steel

You attract what you need like a lover
- Gertrude Stein

Real life is a funny thing, you know. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life and looking back regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say 'I love you'. When we should have said 'I'm sorry'. So there's a time for silence, and there's a time for waiting your turn. But if you know how you feel, and you so clearly know what you need to say, you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
- Taylor Swift

There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it.
I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
- Taylor Swift

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.
- Adriana Trigiani

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.
- Adriana Trigiani

But you should go, if that's what you need to do to get over it. You should go and cry your heart out.
- Chica Umino

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
- Alice Walker

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
- Tad Williams

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
- Terri Windling

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young

Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.
- Zane

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