What We Wanted Quotes

Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.

Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.

I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains ones body?

If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.

We could fly anywhere in the world given that we had to fly coach but we could fly anywhere in the world or do whatever we wanted to do.

Youtube was the start of my career officially, although since I was 4 I've wanted to be a singer. I've performed here and there before youtube, but youtube push me much further.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.

How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

He wanted to work in Hot Woman Valhalla until he died of testosterone poisoning. (Nick)

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!

I didn't set out to be unusual or different. I just wanted to do things my way.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.