Demand Quote by Ricardo Semler

People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there…

— Maya Angelou

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

— Samuel R. Delany

We know that recognition and intrinsic motivation are important to our success, but the key is finding ways to effectively operationalize them.

— Shawn Achor

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Human nature craves novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

— Rajneesh

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from…

— Eric Hoffer

Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It…

— Morarji Desai

“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures…

— Gil Bailie

Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different…

— Paul Allen

“Many people are in fact living with a diminished sense of meaning, and they struggle to fill the void within them by frantically pursuing…

— John Chaffee

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

— Helen Lynd