Want Something Quotes - Page 16

• The key to willpower is "want-power". If U want something strongly enough, U will find the discipline necessary to do it.

  Douglas Merrill

  Keys, Discipline, Willpower

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• I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

  Louise Erdrich

  Church, Would Be, Hens

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.77, Odyssey Editions

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• ... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

  Janet Flanner

  People, Want

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• If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.

  Aesop

  Life, Done, Ifs

  Graeme Kent, Eric Kincaid, Aesop (1990). “Aesop's fables: a collection of Aesop's fables”, Checkerboard Pr

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• I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

  Amy Tan

  Opportunity, Events, Looks

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.152, Penguin

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• The most basic definition of a story is 'Somebody wants something and something's in his way,' and I'm more likely to be engaged if I at least think I know what those two 'somethings' are. They can be simple, they can be complex, but - particularly if you're a beginning writer - I'd rather you err on the side of revealing too much than too little.

  Mark Waid

  Simple, Thinking, Two

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• As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

  Helen Mirren

  Long, Water, Roles

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• You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want children are this way. Artists are this way about pictures. It doesn't go away. You may forget for a few months but then it's back, the unfinished pieces of what you want.

  Deb Olin Unferth

  Children, Artist, House

  Deb Olin Unferth (2010). “Vacation”, p.99, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Thinking, Magic, Cant

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

  Utah Phillips

  Guarantees That, White, House

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• If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

  Seungsahn

  Want, Ifs, Loses

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• Want! You must want something. What do you want?

  Tobias Wolff

  Want

  Tobias Wolff (2007). “This Boy's Life: A Memoir”, p.251, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I want something mouthwatering and tasty which reminds me of childhood. The scent of a fairground, candy floss, little cakes, chocolates and caramels. Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style.

  Thierry Mugler

  Fashion, Mean, Cake

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• Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

  Richard Griffiths

  Thinking, House, Broadway

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• The fellow that calls you 'brother' usually wants something that doesn't belong to him.

  Kin Hubbard

  Leadership, Sports, Brother

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• Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier, and fight for love? Do you wanna travel the world? Do you wanna be a diver for pearls? Or climb the mountain, and touch the clouds above? Be anyone you want to be. Bring to life your fantasies. But I want something in return, I want you to burn, burn for me, baby. Like a candle in the night. Oh burn, burn for me, burn for me.

  Jo Dee Messina

  Baby, Writing, Fighting

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• Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.

  Mikey Way

  Real, Feelings, Invoke

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• As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

  David Mamet

  Long, Protagonists, Audience

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Attachment, Order

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 29, 2012

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• It was difficult for me to understand that, when you're kind to someone in a big city, a lot of the time, they think that you want something. I didn't understand that, all of a sudden, niceness meant that you were trying to get something out of somebody.

  Jaime King

  Thinking, Cities, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don't know what they want. We think they are mad.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, Native American, Eye

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.75, New World Library

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• Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time.

  Mod Sun

  Thinking, May, Existence

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• I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it's one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they're going to want something from me I can't give, or they're going to hurt me.

  Tim Allen

  Running, Hurt, Giving

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• One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

  Charles A. Reich

  Men, Something New, Satisfied

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

  Heidi Klum

  Philosophy, Goal, Happens

  Stuff Magazine, November/December 1998.

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