What You Want Quotes - Page 37

• A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time, having a miserable time, even better. You don't want to read a book about someone having a great time in the South of France, eating and drinking and falling in love. What you want to read is a book about a guy going through the jungle, going through the arctic snow, having a terrible time trying to cross the Sahara, and solving problems as they go.

  Paul Theroux

  Falling In Love, Drinking, Book

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can't just decide to take the subject matter of The Bible and figure out you can just change what you want. I mean, the audience knows, and if you give them a Biblical story, you better get it right.

  Mark Burnett

  Mean, Biblical, Giving

  "‘A.D.’s Mark Burnett & Roma Downey On Besting ‘The Bible’, Season 2 And No Satan" by Dominic Patten, deadline.com. April 3, 2015.

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• What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if you follow your heart you'll wind up doing exactly what you want to do. I was fortunate enough to have enough of a foundation with people behind me to do what was in my heart. And it's all worked out.

  Julianna Margulies

  Heart, Wind, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• Donald Trump said he will not decide about a possible run for the presidency until after the current season of Celebrity Apprentice wraps up. Say what you want about Trump, at least this guy has his priorities in order. He doesn't want to let actual reality get in the way of his reality show.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Reality, Order

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• You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  People, Unapologetic, Want

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• Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you’ll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

  Justin Kan

  People, Finding Yourself, Wake Up

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• Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So I don't care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don't mind.

  Tracy Morgan

  Girl, Daughter, Princess

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• When you are influential and highly respected, people tend to tell you what you want to hear, not what you need to hear. They are seeking your approval, or they flatter you. Unfortunately, this creates a gap between what you hear and reality. If you find yourself in that situation, you will need to work extra hard to get the people close to you to speak honestly into your life. And you will have to become highly intentional in observing and listening.

  John C. Maxwell

  Reality, People, Listening

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• If you try in whatever ways you can to brighten someone's day, to be fair and respectful to everyone, and to grow your network without being "networky", you will be a rockstar. Have a plan, but be willing to deviate from it if awesome opportunities arise. While it's important to think about your future and what you want to be doing in 5 years, don't let that plan be so concrete that you ignore opportunities around you.

  Jessica Hische

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

  "What advice would you give to a young designer?". www.jessicahische.is.

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• If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Shy, Want, Feels

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• The only reason you should move to a new job is if you are not getting the opportunity to do what you want to do and what you believe you can do.

  Lee Clow

  Jobs, Believe, Moving

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• Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

  John Updike

  People, Doing What You Want, Compromise

  John Updike (1990). “Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy”, Everyman's Library

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• I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

  Douglas Adams

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. November 8, 2000.

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• When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do when you grow up," I realized that there was no pressure on that front. And I remember huge relief: Hey, I can go and do what I really know I have to do!

  N. T. Wright

  Growing Up, Father, Interesting

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• A lot of times it's tough to make the decision on your own. You know what you want to do and it always helps to have someone to rely on to help you out.

  David Ragan

  Decision, Want, Helping

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I never look at the internet because then you just have nothing else to do but just look. Most generally, and even myself as a consumer, you think you know what you want. But what's more interesting is figuring out what you don't want. I think the only way that I can do that is just to do what I think is right. That is the only real gesture of respect. Then people can react to the movie how they want to react.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

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• If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.

  Jim Rohn

  Finding Yourself, Want, Buying

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• Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Life Is Short, Want, Life Is

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• You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.

  Jason Spezza

  Writing, Player, People

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• In order to get what you want, you must act.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Order, Want

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.505, e-artnow

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• For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.

  Max Lucado

  Giving Up, Winning, Simple

  Max Lucado (2013). “God's Inspirational Promises”, p.166, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You'd better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.

  Dan Greenburg

  Want, Knows

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

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• Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom,
  Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison
  That keeps you from achieving what you want.

  Tony Robbins

  Keys, Giants, Locks

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• When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two of you will meet because you are looking for each other.

  W.A. Mathieu

  Teacher, Two, Want

  W. A. Mathieu (1991). “The Listening Book”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

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