Want Quotes - Page 129

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.

We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

People don't want other people to be people.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

When I was younger, my dad did want me to be perfect, so that's probably why that's installed in me to this day. I want to be perfect at whatever I do. I can't help it. It's just installed in me.

You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement the change that no-one asked for or wants.

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

I'm a personal type of person. I'll speak when I have something to say, not 'cause someone just wants to know something.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.