What You Want Quotes - Page 15

• Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader.

  Scott McCloud

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Writing, Years, Generosity

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• You're no longer fighting God, trying to make Him do what you want. You're accepting what happens, and your main prayer transforms into one that asks God for nothing more than understanding and perhaps strength to endure.

  Amy Welborn

  Prayer, Fighting, Understanding

  Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.37, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• You can do what you want, at home. But when you go out, keep it together.

  Stefano Pilati

  Home, Together, Want

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• Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Getting What You Want, Want, Findings

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• You have to first experience what you want to express

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Want, Firsts

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• Well if you can’t get what you love, You learn to love the things you’ve got .. If you can’t be what you want, You learn to be the things you’re not .. If you can’t get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming

  Passenger

  Dream, Love You, Needs

  Song: The Things That Stop You Dreaming, Album: All the Little Lights

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• Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.

  Robert Ruark

  Gun, Men, Hunting

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• If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Glowing, Going With The Flow, Want

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• In order to attract and maintain romantic and spiritual partnerships, you must be what it is that you're seeking. That is, you always need to put forth what you want to attract.

  Wayne Dyer

  Positive, Spiritual, Law Of Attraction

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• You do not have to persuade others to help you; all you need do is believe you are what you want to be and then let the world (which is nothing more than yourself pushed out) go to work to make your assumption possible.

  Neville Goddard

  Positive, Believe, Law Of Attraction

  "Class Begins Here".

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• You've got to pay attention to what you're attracted to because as you hold images of what you want, you're gonna be attracted to things that are going to be attracted to you, but it literally moves into physical reality with and through you and it does that by law.

  Bob Proctor

  Moving, Law Of Attraction, Reality

  "Positive Thinking: Questioning Its Power" by Cara Santa Maria, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

  Mario Cuomo

  Inspiring, Powerful, People

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• Forget what you are supposed to do, do what you want to do.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Meaningful, Want, Forget

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• It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, "This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams", when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

  Olivier Martinez

  Dream, Strong, Thinking

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

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• The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Success, People, Needs

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• God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2008). “Grace for the Moment Morning & Evening Edition: Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, p.510, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Wind, Interesting

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• The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.

  Miranda Richardson

  Believe, Writing, Collective Unconscious

  "Classic interview: Miranda Richardson". Interview With James Saynor, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.

  Charles L. Allen

  Sacrifice, Want, Results

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• Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

  Cato the Elder

  Needs, Want, Dear

  "Epistles, Volume III: Epistles 93-124 (Epistle 94)". Book by Seneca translated by Richard M. Gummere, January 1925.

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• Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.

  Rachel Kushner

  Believe, Looks, Want

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• If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat otherswith cruelty...you must fight others but through peace, through dialogue and through educationthen I'll tell him [the Talib] how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Fighting, Shoes

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• You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Want You Back, Want

  Gary Shteyngart (2014). “Little Failure: A Memoir”, p.275, Random House

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• Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Teenage, Adults, Want

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