Top 100 Want Not Quotes
#1. The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.
Nido R. Qubein
#2. I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.
Trent Reznor
#3. One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
Jack Dangermond
#4. If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Will.i.am
#5. There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.
Wallace Stegner
#6. I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.
Henry Rollins
#7. I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.
Gabriela Sabatini
#8. Have you ever noticed that once you have had a tasted of certain sweets- raspberry trifle is my own despair- it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#9. Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.
C.S. Lewis
#10. Today's Declaration: I focus on what I want, not on what i don't want.
T. Harv Eker
#11. Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
Sam Altman
#12. Here in a nutshell is why Google continues to get hyped by everyone including me (notice who I work for). Google surprises [sic] you. Delights you. Gives you what you want (not always, but more often than the other engines).
Robert Scoble
#13. Focus upon what you want, not upon what you don't want.
Doreen Virtue
#14. when we choose the roles we want to play we want to portray our best self. PREPARE FOR THE ROLE YOU WANT, NOT THE ROLE YOU HAVE.
Sally Bennett
#15. If you're looking to make someone happy, maybe you should think about what they'd want, not what you want them to want.
Nicole Williams
#16. People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.
Thomas Sowell
#17. Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.
Frances Power Cobbe
#18. You want not to give a damn, to exist without responsibility, without faith or friends or warmth.
Truman Capote
#19. Real people do what they want ... not what they can.
Christian Coma
#20. When setting intentions, focus on the specifics of what you really want, not necessarily how it plays out.
Russell Eric Dobda
#21. Dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.
Austin Kleon
#22. Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. No," Tessa said, "you've got it exactly backwards. People don't know what they want, not before they see it. Every object of desire is a found object. Traditionally, anyway." Chevette
William Gibson
#24. We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.
Clare Wright
#25. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson
#26. What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.
Esther Jno-Charles
#27. Many honours I want not, nor great treasures: they excite the spleen. But it is bad sleeping without a good name and a little treasure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. Live like you want, not how others want you to live.
Anonymous
#29. It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#30. This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.
John Ilhan
#31. Because I don't have everything I want. Not even close.
Alyson Noel
#32. I think it's neat you do what you want. Not enough chicks do that, if you ask me
just tell society and their expectations to go fuck themselves. If more women did that, we'd be better off.
Cheryl Strayed
#33. Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.
Gayle Lynds
#34. At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.
Lydia Davis
#35. [We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.
Eleanor Smeal
#36. I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
Gabriela Sabatini
#37. I dislike your formality." ... "Your formality keeps us at arms length when I want not even a hairbreadths between us.
Carolyn Jewel
#38. Having the children you want, not having the children you don't want but in order to do that you have to have the right to abortion and the right to pay equity, those two give you choice. One or the other does not.
Selma James
#39. The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.
Judith Perelman Rossner
#40. So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.
William McDonough
#41. All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. We only tell the secrets we secretly want not to be secret, right? And learn as much from what isn't told.
Melissa Jensen
#44. Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.
Brian Tracy
#45. Living in Supreme Influence, your language is neutral and/or moving toward your vision rather than moving away. In other words, you speak about what you do want, not about what you don't want.
Niurka
#46. When she goes, he though. I'll have all I want. Not all I want but all there is
Ernest Hemingway,
#47. Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus
#48. Don't work harder; Learn Faster! Invest in the reality you want, not the reality you have! Know yourself, and you will know your path to success!
Robin Sacredfire
#49. It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.
Harry Browne
#50. There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .
Richard Dawkins
#51. We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
Eric Ries
#52. I just want not to be hurt by him. I want it to be like it was when I was a child, when you thought the day you got married you lived happily ever after.
Fay Weldon
#53. Rather than telling you want not to be, think, wear, eat, say or do, your soul will be prompting you to reach for your greatest joy.
Catherine Carrigan
#54. But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
Salman Rushdie
#55. mama taught me waste not want not. i try not to waste but i'll be damned if i don't want.
Amy Leigh Cutler
#56. A promise means nothing...It's a statement of present want, not future reality.
Lynne Matson
#57. Focus on what you want, not on what you don't want.
T. Harv Eker
#58. Oh, God, awake our souls to see - You are what we want, not just what we need. Yes, our life's protection, but also our heart's affection. Yes, our soul's salvation, but also our heart's exhilaration. Unfailing love - a love that will not let us go!
Beth Moore
#59. Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
Jerry Gillies
#61. Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!
Kathy Sierra
#62. eople - even good, impressive people - always want something simple and unimpressive. Everything good and impressive that they do in their lives is a result of the impressive path they take to get what they want - not a result of wanting an impressive thing.
B.J. Novak
#63. This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
John Henry Newman
#64. We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.
David Souter
#65. And it is you, spirit
with will and energy, and virtue and purity
that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
Charlotte Bronte
#66. Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.
Seth Godin
#67. When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.
Brendan Behan
#68. Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
Desmond Tutu
#69. True compassion does not stem from the pleasure of feeling close to one person or another, but from the conviction that other people are just like me and want not to suffer but to be happy, and from a commitment to help them overcome what causes them to suffer.
Dalai Lama XIV
#71. This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? On
Margaret Atwood
#72. Loafe with me on the grass - loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want - not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
Walt Whitman
#73. It's a seduction, Annie. It's about want. Not need."
"You've already seduced me," she whispered. "All I want is you.
Molly O'Keefe
#74. So you can't compare the present with the past, not really, because you're a different person than you were [when Patrick was alive]. You have to look forward to the things you want, not back at the things you once had.
Kristin Harmel
#76. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
Margaret Atwood
#77. It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.
Catherynne M Valente
#78. Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.
Richard M. Weaver
#81. It can't eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis)
She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. 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
#83. We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?
C.S. Lewis
#84. There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
#85. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.
Josh Hutcherson
#86. Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no longer questioning me, for those eyes made me want to tell him everything. At the same time, those eyes revealed something to me. Was he in love with Alera?
Cayla Kluver
#87. The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music ... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.
Richard Eyre
#88. Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence.
Cormega
#89. A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
Haruki Murakami
#90. But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,
Madeleine L'Engle
#91. He loves to be the center of attention. I hate it. He is the king of the school. I do not want to be the queen. I
Kasie West
#92. I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, to say, 'Don't do this' and my kids go, 'But Mom, you did it.'
Raven-Symone
#93. I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it.
Sharon Stone
#94. The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.
Alexandra Fuller
#95. Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.
Huston Smith
#96. My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.
Elizabeth Hernandez
#97. I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.
Philip Green
#98. I'm not a big prank guy, because I don't like them done to me. I've been on movies sets where one guys goes into his trailer, and then people move the stairs, and he comes out of his trailer, and there's no stairs. That's not funny! I don't want to be that guy!
Terry Crews
#99. Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#100. If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
Alexander McQueen
