If You Really Want Quotes

#1. Life has a funny way of testing you to see if you really want, what you say you want.

Turcois Ominek

#2. You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

Rod Stewart

#3. If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.

Robert Caro

#4. If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.

David Starkey

#5. If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

James Dyson

#6. If you really want to contribute to our theoretical understanding of physical laws - and it is an exciting experience if you succeed! - there are many things you need to know. First of all, be serious about it!

Gerard 't Hooft

#7. If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Shereen El Feki

#8. The spark of life is not gain. Nor is it luxury. The spark of life is movement. Color. Love. And furthermore ... if you really want to enjoy life, you must work quietly and humbly to realize your delusions of grandeur.

Mark Helprin

#9. I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if a girl is worth your time, go to a museum or for coffee.

Leslie Bibb

#10. If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you
and if you don't, nobody can help you.

Alma Alexander

#11. If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will be so deep in debt it will have to go out of business - no more concussions.

Rush Limbaugh

#12. Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation ... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

Victoria Gotti

#13. If you want something to be amazing, if you really want it, do you think you can somehow make it become that way? Like you somehow imbue it with amazingness, even if it doesn't have anything special inherent to it?

Leila Sales

#14. If you really want to help the people, tell them the truth! They may not like it and they may even hate you; yet again, tell them the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Just add value to what you're offering if you really want to win new business, but don't reduce your price.

Carlos Castillo

#16. If you really want to stab me do it without saying anything.

Ma-Roo

#17. Have you noticed that if you really want something, you can make it happen? But you need to be sure it's what you really want, because sometimes, when it comes true, you realize too late that it's not what you wanted. Not at all.

Laura Resau

#18. The choice, though, is not between scrupulous obedience and ecstatic abandon. The choice runs right down the middle. If you really want to know how to fly, you need to know how to walk.

Michael Lesy

#19. If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible.

Afrojack

#20. If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

Gemma Galgani

#21. If you want to feel proud of yourself, then do good. Take action that will make you proud ... And if you really want to feel proud, then do something to help someone else.

Oseola McCarty

#22. Ask questions if you really want to know the answers.

Lexi Ainsworth

#23. If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

Christina Baker Kline

#24. If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#26. How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.

Brian Tracy

#27. They suggested that if you really want to hold a koala but can't, just get a furry pillowcase and fill it with lightly used cat litter. Or tie a bunch of sedated raccoons together. Or maybe hold a dead koala.

Jenny Lawson

#28. A lot of my musical education was done simply by listening. If you really want to excel on your instrument, it's almost impossible to not develop and analyze what you see and hear and to incorporate all of it into your own playing.

David Finckel

#29. If you really want to live,
Don't give a damn about
what others say or think
and just do what you want to do.
DO YOU!!!!

Jessica Fairweather

#30. If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

Terry Gilliam

#31. No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It's the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.

Esther Hicks

#32. If you really want to seriously piss some people off, follow your heart.

Gregor Collins

#33. If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.

Mitch Albom

#34. I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

A.C. Grayling

#35. You can choose to die. You can choose to run ... but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change ... you're going to have to live.

Kazuya Minekura

#36. Why do you want to see her thing? Don't you have yours to look at if you really want to see one?

NoViolet Bulawayo

#37. It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

Jodi Picoult

#38. What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.

Peter Hook

#39. If you really want to be an actress, go to school. I think it's great what people are doing on YouTube, but don't forget to go to class. Have a vision for yourself, but don't forget to do the work.

Bresha Webb

#40. That's why, if you really want to break out of the mundane, you must learn to think and dream the impossible. Only with repeated thoughts can the impossible be made possible through the intention of the nonlocal mind.

Deepak Chopra

#41. The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"

Kurt Fuller

#42. If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.

Jonas Armstrong

#43. You can touch the moon if you really want to do it.

Debasish Mridha

#44. If you really want your hair to look good, just don't wash it for a day. That's my secret.

Zac Efron

#45. If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

Claes Oldenburg

#46. Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It's the lack of limits they can't handle. That's when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

Bill Bonner

#47. Sometimes you get lucky - you don't put much work in and you're successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it's about the quality of the time you put in.

Blake Griffin

#48. If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.

Joseph Murphy

#49. If you really want to be lonely, get married.

Gloria Steinem

#50. If you really want to be afraid for mankind, you don't even need to know who Paul Ryan is. All you have to do is lurk for five minutes by the pharmacy.

Laurie Notaro

#51. Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to.
Like now.

Brian Selznick

#52. If you really want to dream, be fully awake.

Paulo Coelho

#53. There are those of us that believe if you truly want to try drive down the cost of gas, if you really want to solve the problem, then you should be pursuing the extraction of our resources that are right here at home: alternative energy and traditional.

Jason Chaffetz

#54. If you really want it, you need to really work for it.

Jesse McCartney

#55. No matter how many times you've been told no, you can do something or make it happen if you really want it badly because life is all about who delivers when you get out there".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#56. If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Afrojack

#57. Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.

Ken Blanchard

#58. If you really want to live your life to the fullest and realize your greatest potential, you must be willing to run the risk of making some people mad. People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!

Iyanla Vanzant

#59. A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

#60. If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.

L. Ron Hubbard

#61. If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#62. I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

Paul Simon

#63. If you really want to see more work that reflects your values, you have to produce it. You have to be a contributor to the business.

Erik King

#64. If you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure the products that you're bringing down in price are ones that they are buying every day.

Ian McLeod

#65. If you really want to examine your strength, see how many times a day you are disturbed.

Rama Swami

#66. If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

Clifford Stoll

#67. Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.

Mother Teresa

#68. To be honest, the only time I've ever felt like a minority is this exact moment. If you really want to encourage diversity you shouldn't make people feel like a minority." Then he left. The group continued to meet without him. The

Michael Lewis

#69. You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

Robert Breault

#70. If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

Henry Rollins

#71. If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

William Joyce

#72. If you really want to help make a difference while getting a true travel experience, consider a community-run trip.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#73. If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Cameron Diaz

#74. If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

Bruce Nauman

#75. Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

Madeline Carroll

#76. But these trees don't grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is no hurry anywhere else except in your mind. If you really want to be in a state of peace and joy, you will have to unlearn your old habit for achieving things quickly

Osho

#77. If you really want love, ask for it. Those who are willing to ask are often the ones who receive.

Jon Jones

#78. I don't get here much. Message me if you really want a response.

Don Carpenter

#79. If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

Will.i.am

#80. If you really want to be a witch, nothing you have to do will seem like too much. If you don't really want to be a witch, everything will seem like too much.

E.L. Konigsburg

#81. We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens.

Michael A. Singer

#82. Think hard about your stomach, the fullness of it, the possibility if more was introduced that it may need to purge some to fit the rest and then tell me if you really want popcorn.

Kristen Ashley

#83. If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.

Tom Peters

#84. Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

C.S. Lewis

#85. The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me ... If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.

Jodi Picoult

#86. If you really want to know why atheists resent religion so much, try lying to someone for 10-20 years. If you don't have that kind of time, just ask my ex-wife.

Captain Perverto

#87. I've definitely learned that if you really want something, just go for it, no matter how much it scares you.

Bethany Mota

#88. You can get it if you really want

Desmond Dekker

#89. If you really want to change a culture ... empower women.

Greg Mortenson

#90. If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with ... and then spread and radiate peace and love.

Rajneesh

#91. If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him ... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Cesar Chavez

#92. It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.

Johnny Cash

#93. If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.

Brad Szollose

#94. If you really want to find your voice, your goal is to journey toward inner wholeness
which is what life is about anyway. It involves self-acceptance and genuine self-respect.
from Unleash the Writer Within

Cecil Murphey

#95. In my opinion, if you really want to know, half of the nastiness in the world is stirred up by people who aren't using their true egos.

J.D. Salinger

#96. If you really want to persuade someone who doesn't wish to be persuaded, you should tell him a story.

Steven D. Levitt

#97. If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don't want to dance, then you're going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.

Sherman Alexie

#98. If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don't have a job, have a purpose ... When you've got a purpose, the whole world is your office.

Robert Holden

#99. If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously ... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past ...

Nelson Shanks

#100. I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.

Ruzwana Bashir