Top 100 Quotes About Getting What You Want
#1. If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.
Chris Moneymaker
#2. I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
Ira Sachs
#3. Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.
Robert Anthony
#4. The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?
Graham Swift
#5. If you're not looking for the right thing, you can't be disappointed if you don't get it.
Kenneth Eade
#6. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again ... even though every time you've tried before you've lost.
Taylor Swift
#7. Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
Rudyard Kipling
#8. There is no greed in knowing what you want, getting what you want, to then having what you want. The only greed in it will be to expect what you want to fall into your lap.
Sarah Pussell
#9. I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.
Tommy Chong
#10. Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.
David Levithan
#11. The goal of living a life of faith is never to go against God, but to go with Him. It isn't just about getting what you want, it's about seeking God's best, then trusting Him with His answer." - Linda Evans Shepherd
Cherie Hill
#12. You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?
Zakk Wylde
#13. Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Douglas Coupland
#14. Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
Stephen King
#15. Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement
Phil Harding
#16. I want a more difficult life, that's all. What I really want is a first-rate life. I may not get it, but the only chance I have lies in getting out of a second-rate life. I may fail completely, but I do want to try. It's to do with me, not you; so don't worry.
Julian Barnes
#17. The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.
Neil Gaiman
#18. If you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.
Rachel Maddow
#19. Discipline is freedom. It is you getting yourself to do what you really want to do.
Patricia Moreno
#20. If you find you're not getting what you want, stop and think about what it is you really need. If there is a lesson to be learned, learn it. Getting what you need, will often lead to what you truly want ...
James A. Murphy
#21. Happiness is not about getting what you want--it is about wanting what you've got.
Michael Brodeur
#22. The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.
Zig Ziglar
#23. Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to
know what you want and go about getting it.
Anthony DeCurtis
#25. How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?
Rachel Vincent
#26. I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
J. B. Smoove
#27. It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.
Tony Robbins
#28. The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.
Sonya Sones
#29. But in the end, financial decisions aren't about getting rich. They're about getting what you want - getting happy.
Carl Richards
#30. I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.
Art Pepper
#31. Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.
Jane Wagner
#32. You won't want to," he crooned into my ear. "Not after you've had a taste of what I can offer you."
"You're right," I chirped. "I'll probably barf. I'm getting indigestion just thinking about it.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#33. Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.
Dane Cook
#34. Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
#35. People will always want more immersive ways to express themselves. So if you go back ten years ago on the internet, most of what people shared and consumed was text. Now a lot of it is photos. I think, going forward, a lot of it is going to be videos, getting richer and richer.
Mark Zuckerberg
#36. What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
Russell Banks
#37. Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.
Sam Yagan
#38. It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
P.D. James
#39. Your ass belongs to me. I've suffered for it. I've loved you forever. I deserve it," Danny went on, his voice a low mixture of anger and desire. "I don't ever want you getting from another man what you can get from me. You hear me, Paul Guy, it's mine.
Kele Moon
#40. I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
Jodi Picoult
#41. Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
Quentin Crisp
#42. I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma ... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?
Toni Morrison
#43. You have to sit with your longing and know that you may not get what you want; you have to encounter the danger of longing for something without the expectation of getting your desire.
Philippa Gregory
#44. Jealous? ... Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself.
J.K. Rowling
#45. There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of easy soil beneath his paws, and then getting exactly what you want, sunshine or some prized tuber.
Gary Shteyngart
#46. It's terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want.
Y.S. Lee
#47. Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.
Asher Roth
#48. What you find is, you have to deliver a product that has value to the customer. When you do, and I think the wind community is getting much closer to that, customers will want it.
Mike Pompeo
#49. I don't know exactly what drove me to stray, but I think there's a certain sadness to finally getting what you want.
Jessica Pan
#50. So what are you going to do with the pies?" Mum asked.
"My bike is getting fixed today it's kind of a payment, a little thank you."
"How very Dr Quinn Medicine Woman of you; sure they don't want to trade for eggs and chickens?" Dad laughed.
C.J. Duggan
#51. Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
Henry David Thoreau
#52. When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.
David Cottrell
#53. The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.
Norman Vincent Peale
#54. The key to happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get
Jane Green
#55. Sometimes, almost getting what you want is worse than never coming close.
Jennifer R. Hubbard
#56. In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.
Tom Hodgkinson
#57. The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.
Arthur D. Hlavaty
#58. Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
J.I. Packer
#59. The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
#60. Getting what you want is a serious matter. It is far more transformative than frustration.
Bruce Sterling
#61. Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
F. Lee Bailey
#62. You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.
Jeff Bridges
#63. If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
Peter McWilliams
#64. Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
Michel De Montaigne
#65. I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're not getting what you want, and you're always striving and looking ahead instead of just being in the moment.
Matt Dillon
#66. Choose what you actually want to do rather than what you think will impress people on Facebook. Ironically, when you do this, something amazing happens; what you produce stands a better chance of getting recognition. Not just on Facebook, but in the real world.
Meghan Daum
#67. I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.
Denis Leary
#68. The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
Ben Stein
#69. On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.
Ted Sarandos
#70. I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
Loretta Young
#71. When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback.
Tyler Joseph
#72. Did you ever think you had all the answers when you were in the thick of something, but then when you take a step back, you realize you were so busy getting things done that you never stopped to ask yourself if it's what you really want to do?
Jana Deleon
#73. Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.
Suze Orman
#74. Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*
from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.
Jonathan Haidt
#75. Derek's like, "So ... what do you want to do first?"
"I don't know."
"Feel like ice cream?"
"It's, like, three degrees out."
"That's why getting ice cream would be badass.
Susane Colasanti
#76. Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
Byron Katie
#77. Beauvoir knew that the root of all evil wasn't money. No, what created and drove evil was fear. Fear of not having enough money, enough food, enough land, enough power, enough security, enough love. Fear of not getting what you want, or losing what you have.
Louise Penny
#78. Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Ingrid Bergman
#79. Do you want to know what you think about most of the time? Take a look at the results you're getting. That will tell you exactly what's going on inside.
Bob Proctor
#80. I'd clash with my dad over other things, you know, like difference of opinion and me getting testosterone, you know what I'm saying? Me feeling like I'm a little tough, being a teenager. But my big brother would come in drunk and really, really try my dad and I didn't want to do that.
Ryan Montgomery
#81. I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
Dan Marino
#82. An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in order to get what he needs. Interfering means getting in their way so that what you want is stronger than what they want.
Michael Shurtleff
#83. If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to keep getting what you're getting. You want change, make some.
Courtney C. Stevens
#84. I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.
Ben Horowitz
#85. You're getting like an attitude. What you get put through for just wanting something more out of life. Makes you vulnerable. Inside, that tug of desperation, trying not to be excited, maybe this is it, and it's usually freaks and you want to shout I'm not like you.
Sandra Newman
#86. Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.
David Bowie
#87. I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
Russell Simmons
#88. Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?
Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.
Barbara Hambly
#89. Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.
Lorii Myers
#90. On the whole, when I travel to different countries, I like to find the hidden places, so I tend to avoid the cities - but in terms of the ease of getting about, finding what you need, the excitement, that undercurrent of whatever you want it to be, it's got to be London.
Will Tudor
#91. I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
Mackenzie Davis
#92. I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.
Kara DioGuardi
#93. Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
Pema Chodron
#94. Listen, you're a powerful woman and you're used to getting what you want out of life, and you didn't get what you wanted in your last few relationships and it's got you all jammed up. Your
Elizabeth Gilbert
#95. Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.
Emmett Shear
#96. I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.
Erykah Badu
#97. What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving? ... One enslaves, the other liberates.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#98. Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Alan Cohen
#99. The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.
Rudy Josephs
#100. Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.
Ray Dalio
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