Quotes on Want

If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.

Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it's useful to know what people think is the news.

We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun. We should do it by setting good standards, motivating people and have them want to emulate us. But you can't enforce our goodness, like the neocons preach, with an armed force. It doesn't work.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.

Look, I want to love this world _x000D_ as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get _x000D_ to be alive _x000D_ and know it.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.