Do What You Want Quotes

Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand.

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.

You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.

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

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

I want what you want. Whenever you want it.

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.

Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

Start leaving what you want to leave. Your future is waiting.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

I feel like you can eat everything that you want in moderation.

Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.

We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.

There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you want to be all of the energy to do whatever you want to do.

We started the season off really hot, then we had some ups and downs. You can't have a season where it's perfect. It's what you want but in reality it's not going to happen all the time.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.

People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.

You have to overcome negativity and make your dream reality. Even if your family & friends steer you in another directions, do what you want to do. They can't stop you unless you let them.

You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

I saw what it means to work every weekend and every night, and I realized it doesn't work for me. It's not necessary. If you know what you want, you can achieve it without going crazy.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

You can’t let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.

I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.

When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction.

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

Eventually you're going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn't matter as long as what you're hitting first is what you want it to be.

"What do I want?" is your question. And what you want is always changing with the flow. So go with the flow.

It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.