I Want Quotes

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company, I would be resistant to change too.

I'm trying to be among the elite night after night, year after year. I just want to be the best ... and I love winning.

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware in the back of my head what an editor might want.

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.

I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

My total goal in life is to have fun. I just want to be out and around, chillin'.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.

I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you.

It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.

If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.

I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make.

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.

I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.