Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
Smile if you want a smile from another face.
Be willing to dream, and imagine yourself becoming all that you wish to be. Keep in mind the basic axiom -- all that now exists was once imagined. It follows then that what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined.
Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.
I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.
She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.
You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.
If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.
I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.
If you want to achieve your goals, help others achieve theirs.
Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.
Showing up fully exactly where you are is the fastest way to get where you want to go!
I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.
This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.
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