Want Quotes - Page 84

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

Anything is possible as long as you're focused, determined and you really want to do it.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills.

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.

Be respectful. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Respect the lowest rank and the highest rank and you'll never get in trouble.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion