What You Want Quotes - Page 5

• I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

  Tom Glavine

  Movie, Taken, Skills

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• If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Betrayed, Want

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• If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

  Andres Iniesta

  Fighting, Winning, Player

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

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• Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, Sometimes, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.437, Simon and Schuster

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• What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.

  Mike Melvill

  Dream, Want, Doing Your Best

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• One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Writing, Years

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• The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.

  Zig Ziglar

  Self, Getting What You Want, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from May 29, 2014

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• You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Effort

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• Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

  Douglas Coupland

  Getting What You Want, Firsts, Ends

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.56, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

  Unknown

  Getting What You Want, Want, Morality

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• If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Getting What You Want, Involved, Ifs

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

  Robert Collier

  Essentials, Want, Firsts

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Law of the Higher Potential”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Desire, Want

  Song: The Groom's Still Waiting at The Altar, 1981

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• Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Desire, Fool

  "The Way of the Wizard". Book by Deepak Chopra, 1995.

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• The key to effective visualization is to create the most detailed, clear and vivid a picture to focus on as possible. The more vivid the visualization, the more likely, and quickly, you are to begin attracting the things that help you achieve what you want to get done.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Keys, Mma, Focus

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• Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

  Rebecca Wells

  Long, Want, Sometimes

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• Do what you want as long as its paying off for you. But once its become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Long, Want, Liability

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• What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

  Marissa Mayer

  Want

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• Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

  Yanni

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

  Lillian Hellman

  Sorry, Hard Work, Deserving It

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• I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

  Steven Biko

  Jail, Want, Beats

  "Cry Freedom: Richard Attenborough makes a Mandela of Steve Biko" by Alex von Tunzelmann, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2010.

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• Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

  Marguerite Henry

  Dream, Book, Character

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• In a spiritual partnership you learn that wanting what you want is not enough, but that you must both want it deeply and create it every day, that you must bring it into being and hold it in being with your intentions.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Want, Partnership

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 10, 2012

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• You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Fall, Old Habits, Doe

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 26, 2017

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• You really don't want a job.  What you want is access to those things you'd like to have.

  Jacque Fresco

  Jobs, Want, Access

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