Want Something Quotes - Page 9

• ‎"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

  S.J. Watson

  Desire, Want

  S J Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep”, p.147, Random House

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• Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Book, Writing

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• As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

  Brad Meltzer

  Daughter, Mother, Fighting

  "The Top 10 Heroes to Teach Your Daughter How to Fight" by Brad Meltzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2012.

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• It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

  Stephen Fry

  Phones, Knowing, Email

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• It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Glasses, Giving

  "Q&A: Temple Grandin on Autism & Language". Interview with Vikki Valentine and Jon Hamilton, www.npr.org. July 9, 2006.

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• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

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• I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Success, Believe, Thinking

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

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• Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

  Meher Baba

  Diversity, Want, Feels

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• I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Running, People, Way

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

  Anne Lamott

  Design, Special, Want

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• Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Letting Go, Ideas, Genius

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• The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Would Be, Oscars, Worst

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• Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

  Demi Moore

  Passionate, Driven, Relentless

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• If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

  Anna Quindlen

  Elude You, Elude Us, Literature

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.260, Ballantine Books

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• You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

  Rihanna

  Beautiful, Mean, People

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• What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

  Steve Buscemi

  Religious, Atheist, Eye

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• I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspiring, Believe, Commitment

  "There Was Nothing Like This Dame" by Rory O’Connor, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2007.

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• When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, Moral, Deceiving

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Apr 18, 2013

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• I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

  Danielle Dax

  Hero, Insecure, People

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• People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2013

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• The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Done, Anna

  "This devil isn't Anna". MacLean's, June 30, 2006.

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• I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

  Francesca Annis

  Jobs, Waiting, Next

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• If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.

  Michael P. Anderson

  Fun, Mean, Air

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• If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images of one another. The research man does something and does not care [exactly] what it is that happens, he measures whatever it is. The inventor wants something to happen, but does not care how it happens or what it is that happens if it is not what he wants.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Confused, Men, Mirrors

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