"People have to feel needed. Frequently, we..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
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 is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.
More by Maya Angelou
“Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!”
“I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.”
“My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.”
More on Purpose
“With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.”
“It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.”
“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
More on Work
“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.”
“If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.”
“It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.”