Quotes About Something You Want

#1. Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.

Jason Sudeikis

#2. When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing.

Jonah Hill

#3. Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.

Dogen

#4. Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. But beyond that it is entirely up to you. You've got to do for yourself all the seeking and finding concerned with what you want to do. Anyone but yourself is useless to you there.

Eugene O'Neill

#5. All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Walter Mosley

#6. you can always find something you want.

Sophie Kinsella

#7. And don't spend your time looking around for something you want that can't be found. When you find out you can live without it and go along not thinkin' about it. I'll tell you something true, the bare necessities of life will come to you

Baloo

#8. I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

Gilbert Hernandez

#9. You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.

Cass Elliot

#10. You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.

Marilynne Robinson

#11. God is infinitely wealthy. If you see someone with something you want, don't be jealous. Just say to God, "Father if you can do that for him, You can do that for me too!

Paul Silway

#12. It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

Truman Capote

#13. The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.

Jason Fried

#14. If you are connected and one with yourself, even something as massive as the Earth feels as if it belongs to you, something you want to love and care for.

Ilchi Lee

#15. As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.

Tyson Chandler

#16. Having the courage to go after something you want ... I've never had that kind of strength before. I'd think it'd be amazing, though. She

Linda Kage

#17. I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you've got something you want, and that person who has it wants something in return, it quite literally becomes your job to find whatever it is that they want.

Reid Scott

#18. It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that if you have something you love or there's something you want, you'll be happier with more.

Gretchen Rubin

#19. Jealousy I wish we could express this emotion like kids do. If someone gets something you want, you just hit them over the head and snatch it back. That's why children are so un-neurotic. They are doing what we only dream of. The

Ruby Wax

#20. It's less about the task and more about the question "God, is there something you want me to do?

Suzanne Eller

#21. You want to work with people who see something outside of you and that you're maybe not aware of. If someone gives you advice or tells you to do something, you want to be able to follow through with what you're asked to do, and also believe that.

Jill Flint

#22. Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!

Hiromi

#23. If this expansion is something you want, I invite you to come along with me just a little farther. I have lots to tell you, and I think we can talk better around the corner. In the dark. PART

Stephen King

#24. Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy.

Eugene O'Neill

#25. I want us to be together, Evelyn, which I know won't be easy, but nothing worth having ever comes easy. If there's something you want, you have to work hard to have it. And I want you.

Jaci Burton

#26. Even with my non-believing teammates, there is a great amount of unity and I truly believe that's God working. It's really cool in team sports when you're united around a belief or something you want to accomplish.

Tobin Heath

#27. I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#28. If there is something you want to be, have or do in this life, there is only one sure way to find out if you have it. Put your butt on the line!!.

Patrice

#29. I have to say that I think maybe they did her a favor, and maybe she'll actually get help. Coffee's one thing, but coke is another. It's not something you want to really have as a problem in your life. I think we have to kind of stop rewarding bad behavior and actually start helping people.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#30. You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that? Why don't you let that be the entire plan for now?

Laura Dave

#31. If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If

Esther Hicks

#32. You know you are on the right spiritual track when you realize that doing the right thing is not something you should do; rather, it is something you want to do. It is even something you have to do for your own peace, and the well-being of others.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

Peter Mullan

#34. Life is short, and you don't always get an invitation to dance. If you see something you want, go after it." ~ 2000 Kisses

Christina Skye

#35. There is an urge to believe that getting something you want will make you happy. The secret is to be happy without wanting anything. Is that so hard?

Chloe Thurlow

#36. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#37. Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

Jonathan Lethem

#38. Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can't have something, you want it that much more."
Adrian: "Yes. It happens all the time.

Richelle Mead

#39. You really don't play nice when it comes to something you want, do you?" I breathed.
His eyes gleamed. "You have no idea.

Jeaniene Frost

#40. Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Ali Vincent

#41. Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

Mark Morris

#42. You could start with something real. With one day from your life. Something that confused or intrigued you, something you want to explore. Start there and see what happens.

Rainbow Rowell

#43. I think husbands are like tattoos
you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life instead of just wandering into a tattoo parlor on some idle Sunday and saying, 'I feel like I should have one of these suckers by now.

Sloane Crosley

#44. I see it, Jack. Your muse is back. The thing that gave you passion, tormented you, and haunted you is back. You're reeling in ecstasy and dread. It's something you want, but can't ever have. And the one that brings the pain is pure, white as snow ... and standing in front of you.

H.M. Ward

#45. You're never too young for something you really want to do, never too young to go after your passion. The age doesn't matter at all. If it's something you want to do, it depends on your will.

Thia Megia

#46. A fire hydrant is not something you want to lose, especially in an emergency.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#47. Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

Fred Armisen

#48. Love is not something you want to fall into, love is something you want to step intelligently into. If your loved one doesn't love the Lord than don't set your heart to it. It's not worth it.

David Asscherick

#49. Ren grinned. "So ... you and lady tigers, eh? Is there something you want share, Kishan?"
Kishan shoved a forkful of dinner into his mouth and mumbled, "How about I share my fist with your face?"
"Wow. Sensitive, I'm sure your lady tiger friends were all very attractive. So am I an uncle?

Colleen Houck

#50. One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.

Morgan Neville

#51. When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

Trey Gowdy

#52. Ever had that happen? Once you can't have something, you want it that much more." "Yes," he said bitterly. "It happens all the time.

Richelle Mead

#53. If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse ...

Seth Godin

#54. Something you want to tell me?"
"Um ... your scrub top's on inside out?"
"What?" He glances down. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
I shrug. "It was funny.

Lindy Zart

#55. When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don't, we're barking up the wrong tree. But when you believe in something and you see other people believing in it too, it just feels like you're doing something right in the world, and that feels good.

Zachary Levi

#56. I thought that plastic surgery was easy, but it is really serious and is not something you want to mess around with.

Heidi Montag

#57. If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

Robert Stone

#58. The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask

Ani DiFranco

#59. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

Jenson Button

#60. But if it's something you want, then time doesn't matter. Time doesn't matter at all.

Billie Letts

#61. Before you take the leap, before you jump, really make sure it's going to be something you want to get out of bed [to do] everyday, because it is so hard. So you want to make sure that you're really committed.

Alexa Von Tobel

#62. Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more?

Alexandra Potter

#63. They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.

Chael Sonnen

#64. Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don't write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.

Leon Nacson

#65. It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

Michel Gondry

#66. If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you're experiencing your life at just the moment you've found something you want to remember.

Randall Munroe

#67. Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that's worth more to you than your fear.

Roy H. Williams

#68. I know no way of discounting the doctrine that when you take something you want, and damn the consequences, then you had better be ready to accept whatever consequences ensue.

Wallace Stegner

#69. Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

Meg Cabot

#70. Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.

Chris Lilley

#71. If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

Dennis Crowley

#72. You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.

Stacy Schiff

#73. If there's something you want to do, then that means you have a goal. But that goal may change as you live. You never know when your interests may change direction, so always anticipate it, day by day.

Kim Tae-yeon

#74. Life is achievement ... Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.

Ayn Rand

#75. Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

Bobby Bowden

#76. Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good for the wider civilization and rationalizing all these ridiculous conclusions based on this subconscious tendency to serve one's self is a terribly inaccurate way to think.

Charlie Munger

#77. It's always special when you're young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit.

Jeremy Sumpter

#78. I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

Lisa Kleypas

#79. You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.

Patti Scialfa

#80. How do you not try to get something you want?
How do you stop caring about the thing that you care about the most?
How do you erase the other half of your own self?

Jerry Spinelli

#81. People rarely pay attention to what is happening right in front of them, lad," Corin told Gabriel. "Best place to do something you want to hide, is right in front of their arse!

Andrew Lorino

#82. You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

Jodi Picoult

#83. It's easier for parents to ignore, to pretend that everything's great and then do whatever they want while convinced it's something you want, too.

Sophie Jordan

#84. The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Emmylou Harris

#85. What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

Rafer Johnson

#86. Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

Dan Millman

#87. I have not eaten a lot of insects. I ate a termite in Africa, but it was on a bet. It was a soldier termite. It was alive, and I don't really recommend the live soldier termite as something you want to start with if you're going to start exploring eating insects.

Mary Roach

#88. Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

John Ortberg

#89. If there's something you want, pursue it. Hope has power. Don't waste it on foolish things.

Laini Taylor

#90. The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

Gary Chapman

#91. I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#92. When you look at children, they're so beautiful, and they seem so peaceful because their faces aren't all wrinkly and worried. They're like beautiful little pieces of pottery or something. You want to think they have this peace because they have no big responsibilities, but it's just not true.

Peggy Rathmann

#93. You don't need Mom and Dad's permission to take charge of your own life. Find something you want to do, and don't give up on it. You can start tomorrow.

Lisa Kleypas

#94. Sometimes it's hard to see the difference between change and compromise, between sacrificing something you want for something you want a little bit more. "I

Erin Loechner

#95. I did not want to hurt you earlier," he said. His voice had returned to the even tone from before. "But you are going to have to learn. It might not be something you want to do, but you are no longer allowed to make those decisions.

Kristin Elyon

#96. If there's something you want to say, say it. I'm not a mind reader.

Maya Banks

#97. SIMPLICIO: ... You have to [learn to] walk before you can run.
SALVIATI: No, you have to have something you want to run toward.

Paul Lockhart

#98. How can you turn yourself into something you want to be when you're alredy what you are?

David Almond

#99. I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Archie Panjabi

#100. I have never pictured my own wedding. I do want to get married. I think it's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos
you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life..

Sloane Crosley