Want Something Quotes

• When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 30, 2014

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• If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 02, 2017

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• If you want something done, ask a busy person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strong Women, Iron, Independent Person

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• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'

  Joan Smalls

  Thinking, Different, Way

  "Puerto Rican model Joan Smalls breaks down color barriers, one runway at a time" by Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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• God gave us cats so that we would have an example of how we treat Him-mainly that we totally ignore Him as we go about our lives, but when we want something we will start to purr and figuratively rub ourselves against His legs to gain His attention for our wants.

  Jeff Miller

  Cat, Legs, Gains

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• If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best."

  Jane Seymour

  Vocabulary, People, Trying

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• If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and an endless barrage of ridicule and insults. It feels like the only thing I can count on right now. I don’t want something dumb like respect and affection getting in the way.

  Michael Buckley

  Baby, Dumb, Way

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• Your Conscious desires and your Subconscious intention must be in alignment. If your Conscious Mind wants one thing and your Subconscious Mind wants something else (counter-intention) it is impossible to create what you truly want.

  Robert Anthony

  Mind, Desire, Impossible

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• You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

  Seth

  Pebbles, Forget, Imagine

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• I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Hard Work, Practice

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• When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal.

  Shirin Ebadi

  People, Goal, Achieve

  "Interview with Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. October 21, 2003.

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• Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Kissing, Men, Hug

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1872.

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• Consumers around the world always want something unexpected and exciting, and that's what drives me. I love the challenge of reinterpreting my designs in new ways each season to keep the "prep look" modern and fresh.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Design, Challenges, Looks

  "Hilfiger vs Nadal". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. September 22, 2015.

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• If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

  Sam Altman

  Deals, Ifs, Asks

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• I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

  Maya Angelou

  Way, Greedy, Mark

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I put fruit on top of my waffles, because I want something to brush off.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Waffles

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• I'm husband hunting. Now, I know all the men are going to be gay but at this point, I need a new gay husband. Or, a new lesbian assistant. If you want something done, tell a lesbian and the she'll chop down a tree. Something like that.

  Judy Tenuta

  Husband, Gay, Men

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

  Charlyne Yi

  Glasses, Nerd, Tugging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Want, Harder, Happens

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

  Chamillionaire

  Tired, People, Sound

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• It used to be that your rights were infringed upon if the government punished or threatened you for expressing your sincerest beliefs. Now, your rights are infringed upon if you want something but someone refuses to buy it for you.

  Matt Walsh

  Government, Rights, Belief

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• If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Technology, Views

  "Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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