Quotes on Want

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.

If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn't belong there.

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with their large vocabularies. By the excesses of their language, these young men and women try to hide their sense of inexperience. With maturity the writer becomes more secure in his ideas. He finds his real tone and develops a simple and effective style.