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Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

I never want to quit playing ball, They'll have to cut this uniform off me to get me out of it

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.