Top 100 Quotes About What You Want
#1. As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
Ice-T
#2. Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.
Robin Sharma
#3. You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
Stephen Sondheim
#4. What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.
Hugo Chavez
#5. Whatever that day has given, you have to make it the best of the best. That's one thing I've learned over my years. On days when you can't make everything what you want, do what you do best, make it as positive as possible, and go from there. Learn from your mistakes.
Troy Dumais
#6. The most frustrating part of working in TV and film is that you have to convince someone to let you make what you want; in comics you can do whatever you want and for 1% of the budget of TV and film.
Paul Scheer
#7. In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.
Cecil Parkinson
#8. 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
#9. A woman who knows what she wants sexually, and isn't afraid to express it is so fucking hot, Camryn- Tell. Me. What. You. Want. Or, I won't give it to you.
J.A. Redmerski
#10. You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
Albert Ellis
#11. There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.
Wayne Dyer
#12. 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
#13. Do what you have to do when you have to do it, so that you can do what you want to do when you want to do it.
M.K.
#14. As a producer, what you want to do is make the next hit. But you also want to lead the audience into wanting to watch different movies. You have to vary your content.
Michelle Yeoh
#16. Would ask what you want carved on your grave. " "I would like it to say 'Why Do You Care Who Is Buried Here?
Edward W. Robertson
#17. Oh no. You wanted to be turned around and fucked like a bad girl. Now you'll say the bad words that go along with it. Tell me what you want.
Tessa Bailey
#18. Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.
Zane
#19. If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.
Paulo Coelho
#20. 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
#21. Because sometimes it doesn't help to chase after the thing you want. No. Sometimes you have to wait, however long it takes, until what you want most comes to you.
Eleanor Herman
#22. Our first time will be what you want, what you fantasize about. I'm going to take you, right here, right now.
Aleatha Romig
#23. What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?
Drew Carey
#24. Whenever you are in a negative state, there is something in you that wants the negativity, that perceives it as pleasurable, or that believes it will get you what you want.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. You can push someone's button over and over again to get what you want, but there comes a point when your finger slips and you finally hit the whrong one.
Alexandra Bracken
#26. What you want to be defines what you become.
Ron Kaufman
#27. You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.
Henry Rollins
#28. Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.
Errol Morris
#29. Don't ever wait around for your life. Go get what you want. Because believe me, no one's going to give it to you.
Jill Shalvis
#30. If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life.
Donald Miller
#31. It's about the courage to go for what you want, not just what you think you need. Sometimes we don't even know what that is.
Sarah Dessen
#32. Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life."
Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
Donald Miller
#33. It's all inside of you - what you want, who you are, and who you want to be. Just give it time." He pulls away and helps me to my feet. "Nobody makes you, you. You make yourself.
Patricia Vanasse
#34. It's important that people know what you stand for and what you want.
Anonymous
#35. If you're not doing what you want to do. However, you still think about it every day. This means you have not given up. Only you know what action will make it happen and thought is an action. Keep focusing on what you want to do and figure out how to turn your thoughts into reality ...
James A. Murphy
#36. A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#37. Think about what you want to look back and say. Then choose your mindset.
Carol S. Dweck
#38. Write what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write.
Nicholas Sparks
#39. Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
Maya Angelou
#40. And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.
Cristina Henriquez
#41. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.
Hunter Hayes
#42. Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.
Maureen Johnson
#43. Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly.
Epictetus
#44. 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
#45. Make love, not war. Unless you're Loki, in which case: do what you want.
Tom Hiddleston
#46. Fear is what keeps the walls up, so open the gate and let what you want, in when you want
Joshua Wright
#47. Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
T. S. Eliot
#48. A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.
Jason Katims
#49. You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster.
Rhonda Byrne
#50. I finally figured out that it doesn't matter what other people want to read. It matters what you want to write. You write the story that you would want to read, and then fans will come. If you love what you write, others will too.
Jami Montgomery
#51. Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.
Keanu Reeves
#52. It's not a question of what you want. No sane person ever WANTS a war. But if you see outsiders as a threat and believe that an armed defense is the only way you're going to be safe from them, then you're going to find yourselves in the middle of a war whether you want one or not.
Chris Lester
#53. She's American. She shows her emotions, doesn't hide them and tell you what you want to hear. She behaves genuinely and impulsively. That is part of her appeal.
Annie Ward
#54. I think children need to be nurtured for what they are as opposed to what you want them to be. I think that's when those ideas come into your head of like, What should I feel in this moment? It's because someone told you, "Your instinct was incorrect." And you're like, Why? Why is that wrong?
Tyler Blackburn
#55. There are five freedoms:
The freedom to see and hear what is;
The freedom to say what you feel and think;
The freedom to feel what you actually feel;
The freedom to ask for what you want;
The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.
Virginia Satir
#56. You try so hard to shield me, and protect me, and really, there is no need, you try so hard to hide what you want, how you feel, and of course you can't.
Susan Hill
#57. 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
#58. It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.
Wes Borland
#59. You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.
Rhonda Byrne
#60. Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.
Sheryl Crow
#61. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.
Allen Ginsberg
#62. He leaned down and his breath feathered across her forehead, then down to her ear where he spoke in a coaxing voice. I can make you talk, baby. Is that what you want? If you need my hand between your legs, all you have to do is ask me.
Tessa Bailey
#63. But you can't settle for what you want. you gotta find what you need.
Kristen Ashley
#64. No matter how big the risk will be, you're willing to do anything, to get what you want or save yourself.
Ebelsain Villegas
#65. I always like to say that no matter what you want to do in life, if you stick with it, you're bound to eventually get good at it!
Rick Tramonto
#66. Decide. What you want? Life full of years or Years full of life. NOW.
Vikrmn
#67. To have a productive happy life you have to focus on two things: focus on what you want and enjoy what you have.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.
Luc Delahaye
#69. Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.
Geneen Roth
#70. When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.
Candace Bushnell
#71. Your path isn't an easy one, sweetheart. But it might just end up being spectacular." She turned brilliant blue eyes on her daughter. "You have to fight for what you want, and I know you'll win. Every damn time.
Rebecca Zanetti
#72. There is no amount of communication or work that can overcome being with someone who does not want what you want.
Kevin Darne
#74. 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
#75. This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.
Manil Suri
#76. You don't get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
Bill Bonner
#77. I once learned, a long time ago, to get what you want, to have all the power, to be the hero and the good guy, you have to make everyone else look like the bad guy.
Angela Richardson
#78. I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
A.S. Byatt
#79. You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want
and what I want now is a drink.
Sinclair Lewis
#80. 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
#82. To get what you want you must communicate with others in a way that inspires them to want to give it to you.
Marshall Sylver
#83. You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?
CLAMP
#84. Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
Etgar Keret
#85. You go for an audition, and you meet a director, and you find that they don't want you. You have to have a pull with them: that they understand what you want to bring to it. That you don't want to be the pretty little thing.
Neve McIntosh
#86. 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
#87. If you want to measure social media ROI, stop wasting your time doing software demos and attending webinars. Just figure out what you want to track, where you can track it, think about both current customers and new customers, and go do it.
Jay Baer
#88. 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
#89. And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.
Anne O'Brien
#90. At last some time for pleasure trips
And do what you want to do
The time to just take your time
It's toodle-oo to time that flew
Those plan A's and B's
Coming down of that dusty shelf;
it's your time now just for you
To do things for your self.
John Walter Bratton
#91. [The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter
Richard Dawkins
#92. Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.
Les Brown
#93. The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.
James Toback
#95. You don't write what you know, or you would write one thing. I never understood that. You write what you want to find out.
Nora Roberts
#96. Shift the focus from what you want to do, to how you want to be ... how you want to feel.
Denise Linn
#98. I am too good at making you see what you want to see. It has been hard my whole life to make that picture seem so perfect. The perfect daughter in the perfect family who was after all not so perfect. There was again only the illusion of what outsiders wanted to see.
Abigail George
#99. Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.
Agnes Varda
#100. Pray for what you want.
Expect your answer in due time.
Be strong to wait for the arrival of answer.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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