What I Want Quotes

We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?

The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I finally feel like I'm becoming somebody. I really think like I can do something. I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.

If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.

I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had...they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

You only live once, and I just don’t want to waste a minute of my life.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

This life is temporary, this body is temporary, but while I'm here I want to get as much out of it as I can

Decide what you want to be.... Pay the Price ... And be what you want to be.

Keep it simple. You don't want to overdo it with too much makeup or crazy, over-the-top hairstyles. Let your natural beauty show through.

You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.