Top 100 To Get What You Want Quotes
#1. The only way to get what you want is to admit you don't really know what you want. But in the end, or course, you never truly get what you want. So just enjoy the ride.
Gregor Collins
#2. I quickly remember what Finn taught me about how to get what you want from people: pay attention to them, figure out what they want and what they're afraid of.
Cristin Terrill
#3. The only advice I could give is to stay positive and focused in terms of what your goals are, and stick to them. If you can't attain those goals, maybe they're not realistic. At this level only a small percentage of players make it, so you've really got to strive to get what you want.
Filo Tiatia
#4. The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.
Wallace D. Wattles
#5. Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.
Kristen Stewart
#6. Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.
Joyce Meyer
#8. Life is a ripoff when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it.
Werner Erhard
#9. Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.
John Waters
#10. Honestly, it's so easy to get what you want from people if they think you're a psycho.
Sophie Kinsella
#12. Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
Sophia Loren
#13. Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.
Sofia Coppola
#14. Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
Bernie Worrell
#15. What is soft power? It is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments. It arises from the attractiveness of a country's culture, political ideals, and policies.
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
#16. It is possible to get what you want in life, you must work for it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.
Lisa Loeb
#18. Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Jodi Picoult
#19. The nagual doesn't give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.
Frederick Lenz
#20. The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It's such a simple idea. It's the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
Charlie Munger
#22. To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of
undeserving people.
Charles T. Munger
#23. How do I know that you aren't manipulating me right now, like you do everyone else, to get what you want?"
"Because if that was true, you and I would already be lovers.
B. J. Daniels
#24. I don't call myself an 'independent filmmaker'. Either a concept works within a studio system or it doesn't. If it does then you should try to get a studio budget so that you can use all of the tools they have to get what you want. If it doesn't then you look elsewhere, or make it yourself.
Andrew Neel
#25. When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.
Zig Ziglar
#26. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want." - ABRAHAM L. FEINBERG
Laura Doyle
#27. Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.
Adam Lambert
#28. My father used to tell us, 'You will have to work twice as hard to get what you want.
Wyomia Tyus
#29. There's a lot of trials and tribulations you have to go through to get what you want, especially if you feel like it belongs to you.
Keyshia Cole
#30. Islam isn't like that - something you can use just to get what you want. It's a genuine spiritual commitment, a way of life...
Na'ima B. Robert
#31. Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.
Nick Kroll
#32. In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
Jack Canfield
#33. Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.
Martha N. Beck
#34. Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
Orson Scott Card
#35. If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.
Jack Canfield
#36. Your body is a piece of fucking art, but that doesn't mean you can use it to get what you want.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#37. To get what you want, stop doing what isn't working. - Earl Warren
Max Allan Collins
#38. The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
Charlie Munger
#39. 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
#40. You're going to spend your life doing something; you might as well pay the price to get what you want.
John Hawkins
#41. But what if you needed to get what you want... just once?
Holly Bourne
#42. Sometimes you have to forsake what you want, to get what you want.
E'yen A. Gardner
#43. 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
#44. Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't, but every day you try. That's what painting is.
Zibby Oneal
#46. Violence was seen by wiseguys as a tool to get what you want and only occasionally to vent your anger. It was not seen as a plus or a minus, it was just part of the landscape.
Nick Apuzzo
#47. The big man bent to her ear. "You know you have to gamble, don't you, to get what you want? So what are you prepared to lose?
Anna Hope
#48. I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.
Joe Mantello
#49. It is through action that you set the wheels of life in motion to get what you want and be who you want to be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#50. The best way to get what you want is to pretend you don't want it.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#51. You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.
Spencer Johnson
#52. You probably have the ability to get what you want. And you likely have everything you need to be completely satisfied. But do you also have the ability to want what you've got? That just may be one of the most important questions you will ever answer.
Steve Goodier
#53. I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.
William John Locke
#54. You would use your body to get what you want?"
"In a heartbeat."
He was hurt. I could feel it echo through him. He stepped closer again, leveled his face inches from mine, and whispered in the softest of voices, "Whore.
Darynda Jones
#55. You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.
Larry Ellison
#56. You have to use what you have to get what you want.
RuPaul
#57. The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?
Gwen Stefani
#58. Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
Alan Cohen
#60. I think it's better to be obsessed than to be depressed ... I think pushing to get what you want can't be so awful. I think it's key to success.
Ellen Hopkins
#61. Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.
Stuart Wilde
#62. I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.
GG Allin
#63. To get what you want help others get what they want
Zig Ziglar
#64. Fox dung! I'm a loyal ShadowClan cat. If I'm ever made deputy or leader it will be because I have earned it myself - and my Clanmates and StarClan wish it. You're twisting the warrior code to get what you want, just like you did when you were alive.
Erin Hunter
#65. Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#66. Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.
Robert Breault
#67. I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear making you fearless. It's a very powerful emotion. Use it to get what you want. I mean if it's going to rule our life, it might as well rule you to freedom, right?
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#68. You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.
Wallace D. Wattles
#69. Writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing. The secret is finding the balance between going out to get what you want and being open to the thing that actually winds up coming your way.
Ann Patchett
#70. Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.
Willie Stargell
#71. You go through things in life where you're not always going to get what you want, but if God feels it's supposed to happen, it's going to happen.
Kevin Ware
#72. To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.
Anders Holm
#73. There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#74. And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.
Anne O'Brien
#75. Do not be satisfied by just getting what you need, strive and work harder to get what you want.
Auliq Ice
#76. 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
#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. No matter how big the risk will be, you're willing to do anything, to get what you want or save yourself.
Ebelsain Villegas
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
Stephen Sondheim
#82. The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is -
they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you've-got-it-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it.
Harper Lee
#83. The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.
George Hammond
#84. I do think I'm terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It's rare that you get in a situation in life where you don't know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don't want to.
Paul F. Tompkins
#85. Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
Wayne Dyer
#86. Most people really don't know what they want; so they never get it.
Debasish Mridha
#87. We want you to stop caring about what anybody else's response is to you. And when you get there, they'll all really, really like you. It's the strangest thing. When you need their approval, you never get it. And when you don't need their approval, you're so tuned in, everybody wants to be with you.
Esther Hicks
#88. The older we get, the less prone we are to putting off what we really want to do, therefore you will be able to seek out new directions later.
Wendy Lustbader
#89. I want to get involved in causes I believe in, and I know so many others that want to also get involved, but it's hard to know how. Often, it's through big organisations, and you don't know exactly where your money is going or what effect you are having.
Blake Lively
#90. But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy.
Paul Reiser
#91. You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.
John Sununu
#92. Are you saying you want to have sex with me this week and only get to ask and be asked ten personal questions?"
"That's what I'm saying." His response was dead serious.
"You're crazy.
Vi Keeland
#93. I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.
Stephen Malkmus
#94. When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.
Brad Pitt
#95. If you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.
Patricia Wentworth
#96. The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore
#97. Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts. And I look at them and say, You dont want to have contacts with those people. Look at what happened to River Phoenix. If you get caught up in that, it ruins you. Hollywood is garbage.
Paul Walker
#98. Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
Richard P. Feynman
#99. People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy.
Susanna Kaysen
#100. You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.
Jay Asher
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