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“It's a weakness of mine-I want people to understand me.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy

“Your Plan B may seem like an imposed consequence since it is you who are the key actor. But remember what your Plan B is—your best alternative should the other refuse to respect your interests. It is not a punishment for the other, but simply the logical path for you to follow in pursuit of your legitimate needs. It is an alternative path to success. Let your Plan B speak for itself. Through your quiet tone and confidence, let the other know you are serious about carrying out your Plan B with its attendant logical consequences.”
― William Ury, The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes

“I must say that I have rarely seen a community come together in order to meet a common need in a manner as beautiful as that of a handful of birds at a feeder.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He had known on some level, even if he couldn't articulate it clearly at the time, that the problem, the thing that kept him from being loved, was his tendency toward excess, the big hunger inside of him, the same force that had made him drink and drug that had mutated in sobriety to other things - mostly food and validation- and he stuffed the emptiness however he could. His need was bottomless.”
― Sam Lansky, Broken People

“Be ready to walk away. Remember, you only want this deal, you do not need this deal.”
― Jim Camp, Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know

“What does a successful life look like? We all have our own deep-seated needs, so we each have to decide for ourselves what success is. I don’t care whether you want to be a master of the universe, a couch potato, or anything else—I really don’t. Some people want to change the world and others want to operate in simple harmony with it and savor life. Neither is better. Each of us needs to decide what we value most and choose the paths we take to achieve it.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“From a FEMININE woman to a SENSUAL woman is a whole other conversation. The latter is about putting your MORE skin in the game not because you NEED to but because you DESIRE to.”
― Lebo Grand

“But life is a lot more balanced and varied now. My competitive nature has softened, and my drive and determination are channelled into different pursuits. Projects like these books, my career with Parkrun, and being with friends and family—when we’re allowed—are now more important than setting sporting goals. I’ll always be active, but I no longer feel the need to go out on a five-hour bike ride. My desire to prove something through sport has lessened, but my desire to achieve things beyond sport has increased.”
― Chrissie Wellington

“To say please, and mean it, is to believe that life itself can be persuaded in your favor.”
― Aliya Whiteley, Peace, Pipe

“Sometimes she chose to stay home while Coach traveled, prioritizing her own schedule and needs. Her independence reassured me. Caroline’s ability to balance independence and devotion, though, showed me it could be achieved.”
― Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

“When people hurt us, it helps to let go of wanting them to love us. It helps to learn how to love purely.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“If you are avoidant, the first step, therefore, is to acknowledge your need for space—whether emotional or physical—when things get too close, and then learn how to communicate that need. Explain to your partner in advance that you need some time alone when you feel things getting too mushy and that it’s not a problem with him or her but rather your own need in any relationship (this bit is important!). This should quell their worries and somewhat calm their attachment system. They are then less likely to intensify their efforts to draw closer to you.”
― Amir Levine, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love

“The more the other party needs what you can offer, the more they will feel the loss if you walk away. And the more likely they are to say yes to your terms.”
― G. Richard Shell, Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People

“Investigative negotiators confront demands the same way they confront any other statement from the other party: “What can I learn from this demand? What does it tell me about the other party’s needs and interests? How can I use this information to create and capture value?”
― Deepak Malhotra, Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond

“Whether you attack or yield, you are reacting. You are off track, no longer focused on the prize—the protection of your core interests and needs. Yielding rewards the other’s abusive behavior, and counterattacking reinforces it. In either case, you interrupt the other’s process of accepting our No. The choice is yours. The moment you react to the other’s reaction, you are initiating an action-reaction cycle that can go on forever. The alternative is not to react but rather to stay true to your underlying Yes. Keep your focus on what matters to you.”
― William Ury, The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes

“I told him I would go up there; he said no, no, everything was fine. I drove up anyway and when I opened the door to the house he was sitting alone in the kitchen, the kettle on the stove madly whistling away. He was fast asleep; after the stroke he sometimes nodded off in the middle of things. I woke him, and when he saw me he patted my cheek. 'Good boy,' he muttered. I made him change his clothes and then fixed us a dinner of fried rice from some leftovers.”
― Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker

“अनंत संभावनाएँ आपका इंतजार कर रही हैं, आपको बस इसे तलाशने की जरूरत है।”
― Dax Bamania

“What’s important is, who needs to move where? Does the incrementalist need to move closer to the completionist’s view or vice versa? In either case, you’ve got to use the simplest trick in the conflict resolution book : finding common ground. A better way to think about this is, “What do these disparate philosophies need from each other?”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“The things that you desire with ‘all of your heart’ will likely be the things that you will find along the way to the thing that you thought you desired with ‘all of your heart.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Compassionate people help strangers in their moment of need.”
― Steven Magee

“If you look at it a bit more deeply, ‘crying wolf’ is a cry for help that’s not about a wolf.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You’ve got to use the simplest trick in the conflict resolution book : finding common ground. A better way to think about this is, “What do these disparate philosophies need from each other?”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“In my time of need, the USA disability system denied financial support.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“The world is crying out for the very thing that it is shutting out. And what is worse than crying for the very thing that you’re denying?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is nothing like meeting a need.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“From a FEMININE woman to a SENSUAL woman is a whole other conversation. The latter is about putting MORE skin in the game not because you NEED to but because you DESIRE to.”
― Lebo Grand

“From a FEMININE woman to a SENSUAL woman is a whole other conversation. The latter is about putting MORE skin in the game, not because you NEED to but because you DESIRE to.”
― Lebo Grand

“People with treated lysinuric protein intolerance need to stick with their restricted diet.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Exchange converts a good into a commodity, an object no longer intended
for the satisfaction of an individual need or brought into existence and
vanishing with that need. On the contrary, it is intended for society,
and its fate, now dependent on the laws which govern the social
circulation of goods, can be far more capricious than that of Odysseus;
for what is one-eyed Polyphemus compared with the argus-eyed customs
officials of Newport, or the fair Circe compared with the German meat
inspectors? It has become a commodity because its producers participate
in a specific social relationship in which they have to confront each
other as independent producers. Originally a natural, quite
unproblematic thing, a good comes to express a social relation, acquires
a social aspect. It is a product of labour, no longer merely a natural
quality but a social phenomenon. We must therefore discover the law
which governs this society as a producing and working community.
Individual labour now appears in a new aspect, as part of the total
labour force over which society disposes, and only from this point of
view does it appear as value-creating labour.”
― Rudolph Hiferding, Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development

“Exchange is thus accessible to analysis because it not only satisfies
individual needs, but is also a social necessity which makes individual
need its instrument while at the same time limiting its satisfaction.
For a need can be satisfied only to the extent that social necessity
will permit. It is of course a presupposition, for human society is
inconceivable without the satisfaction of individual needs. This does
not mean, however, that exchange is simply a function of individual
need, as indeed it would be in a collectivist economy, but that
individual needs are satisfied only to the extent that exchange allows
them to participate in the product of society. It is this participation
which determines exchange. The latter appears to be simply a
quantitative ratio between two things,[4] <#n4> which is determined when
this quantity is determined. The quantity which is turned over in
exchange, however, counts only as a part of social production, which
itself is quantitatively determined by the labour time that society
assigns to it. Society is here conceived as an entity which employs its
collective labour power to produce the total output, while the
individual and his labour power count only as organs of that society. In
that role, the individual shares in the product to the extent that his
own labour power participates, on average, in the total labour power
(assuming the intensity and productivity of labour to be fixed). If he
works too slowly or if his work produces something useless (an otherwise
useful article would be considered useless if it constituted an excess
of goods in circulation), his labour power is scaled down to average
labour time, i.e. socially necessary labour time. The aggregate labour
time for the total product, once given, must therefore find expression
in exchange. In its simplest form, this happens when the quantitative
ratios between goods exchanged correspond to the quantitative ratios of
the socially necessary labour time expended in their production.
Commodities would in that case exchange at their values.”
― Rudolph Hiferding, Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development