I Want Quotes

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.

Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.

I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.

I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

I think a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.

A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.

I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?" "You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything.

Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

Humility is what we want other people to have.

Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.