Walter Kirn

Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.

American Novelist

Claire Messud

If you're writing a thriller, and you don't make it compelling, then you've really not done your job. So it's easier for me not to set out with certain goals, and then I can't see them as unmet. It's like life generally: If I'm not aiming to be physically fit, then I'm not always thinking about being unfit.

Frans van Houten

Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity.

Dutch Businessman

Shakti Gawain

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

Author

Amanda Foreman

As her life became more unhappy, acting attracted Marie-Antoinette because it fulfilled unmet emotional needs. By all accounts, she was quite good in her little private theatricals. But her desire to be a heroine, both literally and figuratively, was shocking to the French.

British Historian

John Lynch

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

American Politician

Philip Schultz

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

American Poet

Barack Obama

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

American President

Tim Pawlenty

Legal immigration should emphasize merit and meeting the needs of the U.S., including specific unmet workforce needs.

Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Austrian Psychologist

Indicates a sense of lacking or necessity that might cause emotional response.

Emotional Weight

Often used relating to human basic needs or health which are not satisfied.

Human Concerns

Carries a negative connotation, as it represents failure to meet a need or expectation.

Negative Connotation

Commonly used in business or project settings to denote that objectives haven't been met.

Project Management

Reflects areas that need improvement or additional attention.

Reflecting Shortcomings

Can motivate planning or action in order to meet the unachieved goals.

Motivation Context

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 from around the world. And we look at these exponential technologies from medicine, biotech, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, space, and address how we can cross-train and leverage these to impact major unmet goals. We also have seven-day executive programs. And coming up next month is FutureMed,

Daniel Kraft: Medicine's...

 And you know, I think the real innovation is that we're now able to design or program the architecture and structure of plant tissues in such a way that they could direct cell growth to address an unmet medical need. As scientists, we spend our lives living on a knife's edge. On the one hand,

Could we treat spinal...

 Their fantastic philanthropic investment made this possible, and this is really a nonprofit education center which is just about to open. It looks like this, this whole building dedicated. And what it's trying to do is accelerate this to take unmet medical needs, to work and innovate --

Eric Topol: The wireless...

 hired me to conduct a diagnostic study to assess the unmet needs of subsectors like film, visual arts and design and see what government could do to respond to those needs. After we completed the study, we made policy recommendations to incorporate the creative economy

How a strong creative...

 we have just encountered a new set of unmet needs. We've privileged safety over experience and we've gained a lot in doing so, but I think we've lost something too. Now, I don't romanticize evolutionary time. I'm already beyond the lifespan of most hunter-gatherers,

For more wonder, rewild...

 so we are very mindful about the issues, but I think our goal is just to address the unmet medical need for those patients and their families. Plus, no one can say that to you if they eat bacon, right? That's a good point.

How to create a world...

 with the idea really to provide novel treatments wherever there is a high unmet medical need. And we now can do that in a much larger and broader scale, and bring our innovations faster to patients.

Uğur Şahin and Özlem...

 I've been looking somewhere else. Because actually radical innovation does sometimes come from the very best, but it often comes from places where you have huge need -- unmet, latent demand --

Charles Leadbeater:...

 If you're depressed, if you're anxious, you're not weak, you're not crazy, you're not, in the main, a machine with broken parts. You're a human being with unmet needs.

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