Top 100 Quotes About Know What You Want
#1. If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.
Bill Cosby
#2. Do your dreams find their way from your sub-conscious self, the part of your brain that's busy while you sleep, to your conscious self? From your night self to your day self? That's the question." She met William's eyes and held on. "Do you know what you want?
Dennis Vickers
#3. So, whatever it is that's stopping you
from being with me, like we both know what you want, then fight it, babe, because I can't be without you a moment longer.
Samantha Towle
#4. You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, envied by every girl and wanted by every boy, and still feel completely worthless. The world can be laid at your feet and you can still not know what you want from it.
Hannah Harrington
#5. I don't think you know what you want."
"Yes. I do. I want you, and being with you feels a hell of a lot better than being without you. I'm not going to fight it anymore.
Rachel Gibson
#6. If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.
John Goddard
#7. This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.
Manil Suri
#8. I've wished for things and never really had the chance ... It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then ... go.
Deb Caletti
#9. Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.
Kameron Hurley
#10. At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao-Tzu
#11. Do you know what you want to do?" "No. Not really." "But you know what you don't want to do?" "Yes," I answered definitely. "Then there's your starting point.
Kylie Scott
#12. If you don't know what you want to fill your life with, there's a good chance you're going to fill it with everything that you don't -
Josh James Riebock
#13. When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?
Sandra Lamb
#14. Know what you want & what you offer to the one you wish for. Attract what you desire by understanding yourself better than you have ever done so before.
Truth Devour
#15. If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. The absolute truth is that if you don't know what you want, you won't get it.
Andrew S. Grove
#17. As the great self-help coach Tony Robbins says, "If you don't know what you want, the chances that you'll get it are extremely low." If
Ben Horowitz
#18. Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#19. because none of you know what you want follow me
because I'm not going anywhere
I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in
look at my legs I am the Nijinsky of dreams
Frank Stanford
#20. Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have.
Rachel Simon
#21. If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
Jeffery Deaver
#22. Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
#23. If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
Maggie Smith
#24. I guess sometimes you don't know what you want because you don't know it exists.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#25. Live your dream. Know what you want to do and never take no for an answer.
Wendy Greuel
#26. The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
Lukas Foss
#27. If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want.
Barbara Sher
#28. People treat you differently when they think you are too young to know what you want.
Susan Meissner
#29. Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want
you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.
Ayn Rand
#30. Therefore, when you know what you want, you must deliberately focus your attention on the feeling of your wish fulfilled until that feeling fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness.
Neville Goddard
#31. ...I'd like to know what you want out of life."
"I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on my pillowcase, wishing that lovely things didn't have to be so fragile.
Anita Higman
#32. You have to go after what you want. You have to know what you want.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.
Robertson Davies
#34. You don't know what you want Livvie, and what you think you want, you've been brain-washed into wanting
C.J. Roberts
#35. You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want ...
Julia Heywood
#37. Sometimes communicating feels like a never ending maze. You know what you want to say, but you can't choose the right words. Then you go around and around trying to find them. Most of the time you just give up.
Tina J. Richardson
#38. You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.
Lesley Gore
#39. Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just do what you want. If you know what you want to do and advocate for it, no one will put any energy into stopping you.
Paul Feyerabend
#40. How am I supposed to know what you want when you never ask for anything? You just give all the time, you're always there, and when I ask, you give. You give even when I don't ask. Jamie's response to Mark's news
Mari Donne
#41. It's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that into being a CEO, now you know what the artist wants. That's kinda how I did it.
Lil' Wayne
#42. He was sprightly and uncommonly good looking, with a quiet, magnanimous confidence that attracted people. He was my hero, too, and I listened to him. He gave me lots of wise advice. He told me to put myself in win-win situations, and that, "You have to know what you want, and you have to get it,
Aspen Matis
#43. The greatest sin you can commit against your own life is to know what you want and not to act.
Kim Stafford
#44. Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.
Larry Shyatt
#45. To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you ... a truth ... that used to elude you.
Norman Mailer
#46. Know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
Nora Roberts
#47. Simon shook his head."Look,do you know what you want to eat,or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up and down aisles because it amuses you?"
"That and I'm not really familiar with what they sell in mundane grocery stores.Maryse usually cooks or we order in food."said Jace
Cassandra Clare
#48. Know what you want and pray God that you recognize it when you see it....
Unoma Nwankwor
#49. Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.
Meghan O'Rourke
#50. To be an artist - actually, to be a human being in these times - it's all difficult. ... What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
Patti Smith
#52. When people know what you want, they will give it to you.
Kevin Roberts
#53. Better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.
Dan Greenburg
#54. You really have to bring your game and know what you want to do. And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want. You have to be malleable to what's going to work, and you have to stay in the framework of the context.
Adrian Pasdar
#55. Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted ... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this.
Vanessa Hudgens
#56. When you're a woman in your thirties, and maybe you don't really know what you want to do with your life, but it seems like everyone else does, and your best friend gets married, and it forces you to look at yourself. I don't know if I described that in a very funny way.
Kristen Wiig
#57. Remember, there's sacrifice involved in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it.
John Allyn
#58. I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.
Paul Arden
#59. You know what you like. You know what you want. So all you have to do is find some work related to that stuff.
Novala Takemoto
#60. If you don't know what you want, the chances that you'll get it are extremely low.
Ben Horowitz
#61. Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.
Ernest Hemingway,
#62. You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
Gertrude Stein
#63. Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient.
The answers will
come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the
while.
Julia Quinn
#64. Animals ... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
Bruce Greenwood
#65. You don't have to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to want more than just having a job and muddling through life. I want you to find a passion you believe in strongly enough to risk humiliation and rejection.
Kate Klise
#66. I believe in the law of attraction ... I believe you can speak things into existence. When you know where you're going and you know what you want, the universe has a way of stepping aside for you.
Jon Jones
#67. All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
Wallace D. Wattles
#68. I know what you want, and you don't need to take it. I can give it to you.
Krista Ritchie
#69. The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
John Gunther
#70. You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.
Sofia Coppola
#71. You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.
Will Smith
#72. I'm frustrated. I just don't know what you want from me.
Cora Carmack
#73. I know what you want to hear, doctor, but I'm sorry, you're not going to pry some sordid confession out of me.
Barbara Mujica
#74. The key to becoming a proactive influence for music education is the development of a "dream list." It is more often referred to as a long-term plan. Do you know what you want your program to look like in the next five years? Ten years? Start now!
John Benham
#75. I know what you want. And I know what you need. But I'm gonna screw it up, yeah, cause I'm an idiot. And I'm your boyfriend.
Jimmy Fallon
#76. I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.
Ashley Jensen
#77. I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.
Monique Lhuillier
#78. Once you know what you want, even if you can't see it, even if you do not know how you will get it, you have to trust that it is there.
Stephen Richards
#79. Honey, I am that good. I know what you want, and I can give it to you. Anytime you want it. Anytime I want it. That's why you want to be here with me
Jaci Burton
#80. If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.
Napoleon Hill
#81. I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.
Hans Christian Andersen
#82. You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.
Jewel
#83. You think you know what you want, but once you have it, the hole you thought it would fill is that much bigger. The want is what exists, not the thing we lust after.
Hugh Howey
#84. Your greatest difficulty is with yourself; for you are your own stumbling-block. You do not know what you want. You are better at approving the right course than at following it out. You see where the true happiness lies, but you have not the courage to attain it.
Seneca.
#85. For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
Alan W. Watts
#86. Don't settle, Genevieve. Don't let strangers grope you on dance floors. Don't allow college boys to fondle you in doorways. Don't waver in uncertainty about your own desires....Know what you want. Endeavor to seize it, and keep it when you do.
Juliette Cross
#87. The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
Karl Rove
#88. Vision (know what you want)
Passion (know why you want it)
Commitment (know how you're going to get there)
Renee Rearden
#89. Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
Wendi McLendon-Covey
#90. Know what you want to achieve prior to starting to negotiate. It's the golden rule but the one most people fail to heed. Without a plan, you allow the opposing party to define your goals instead of the other way around.
Ivanka Trump
#91. If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#92. You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.
Aden Young
#93. Don't just try to "make it" through the day. Celebrate the day. Say, "This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it" (see Psalm 118:24). Don't dread the day; attack the day. Know what you want to accomplish today and go for it.
Joyce Meyer
#94. The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.
David Brooks
#95. When I was really young, I was reluctant to be perceived as bossy, and I thought that working with an ensemble was about generating a consensus all the time. Later on, I realized that it's actually generous to know what you want and to tell people what you want - actors, crew, everyone.
Liza Johnson
#96. The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
Robert Collier
#98. Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it.
Biz Stone
#99. If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.
Malcolm Forbes
#100. If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.
Garrett Camp
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