Top 100 What Do I Want Quotes
#2. In this method, you don't ask, What do I want from life? You ask a different set of questions: What does life want from me? What are my circumstances calling me to do? In this scheme of things we don't create our lives; we are summoned by life.
David Brooks
#3. It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.
Danny Pintauro
#4. What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done.
Morgan Freeman
#5. It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.
Ali MacGraw
#6. You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'
Ryan Eggold
#7. What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
#8. Listen to what you tell yourself about your life situation. If you find it's pessimistic or negative, ask yourself, "What's another way of thinking about this?" or "What do I want to create in my life?
Lynn A. Robinson
#9. What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
Alan Alda
#10. What do I want?" His arms caged her on either side, his body pressing hot and hard against hers. "You, Aiwattsi. Only you.
Victoria Vane
#11. When I write a book ... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'
Corey Taylor
#12. What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else - a friend with special knowledge.
John Steinbeck
#14. I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'
Heather Graham
#15. What do I want from a book? Something protean, something always on-the-move-or-make - shape-shifting, semantically-and-syntactically-shifting.
Joshua Cohen
#16. We tend to think only in terms of what we think is plausible that we could pull off and decide that "that's what I want", instead of focusing on "what do I want?" and then figuring out how we could pull it off.
Michael Neill
#17. Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, 'Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?'
Andie MacDowell
#18. What do I want from this life? What makes you happy is not enough. All the things that satisfy our instincts only satisfy the animal in us. I want more. I want to look up to myself and when I die, I want to smile because of the things I have done, not cry for the things I haven't done.
Tom Hurndall
#19. It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.
Brene Brown
#20. What do I want?" His fingers brushed over loose strands of hair near my temple. "I want to call you every five minutes. I want to text you good night every night. I want to make you laugh. And I want you to look at me like you did that first night on the bus.
Jenn Bennett
#21. My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.
Brandon Sanderson
#22. The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be
Todd Stocker
#23. The question isn't, "What do I want to get done in the next thirty days?" but, "Who do I want to become in this next season of my life?
Bill Hybels
#24. My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?"
"The outside world may want you," he replied.
Rabindranath Tagore
#25. What do I want? Why is that simple question - four little words - so impossible to answer?
Libba Bray
#26. Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.
Ezra Taft Benson
#27. Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?
Shannon L. Alder
#28. You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'
Mae Whitman
#29. I am grateful to you for taking me as you find me. What do I want with a friend who judges me?
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#30. Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.
Layne Beachley
#31. We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'
Libba Bray
#32. You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What is my image? To be a successful photographer, you have to have a unique point of view otherwise you'll get lost in the mix.
Mario Sorrenti
#33. Future Strong leaders are driven by a core question: What do I want my legacy to be? That requires a lot of searching one's inner truths, and being brutally honest about how that compares to one's daily actions.
Bill Jensen
#34. I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'
John Patrick Shanley
#35. I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#36. Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?
Emily Carr
#37. My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
Venus Williams
#39. A lot of the day-to-day, minute-to-minute struggles are a bit more taken care of, so it allows you to start asking more existential questions like, "What do I want in life? What's going to make me happy?"
Paul Rust
#40. It's not 'What do I want to do?', it's 'What kind of life do I want to have?'
Arianna Huffington
#41. For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.
Mary McDonnell
#42. What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?
Parker J. Palmer
#43. Instead of asking, "what do I want from life?," a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?
Eckhart Tolle
#44. don't label a lot of things good/bad. [Instead, I ask] can I evolve from this? What do I want now?
Timothy Ferriss
#45. "What do I want?" is your question. And what you want is always changing with the flow. So go with the flow.
Leonard Jacobson
#46. I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice.
Chuck Feeney
#47. What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.
Ellen Goodman
#48. What do I want from the world? I want the world.
Boris Zubry
#49. Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art.
Casey Neistat
#50. A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty,
'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't
feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own,
outside of husband and children.
Betty Friedan
#51. Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life ... do that.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#52. What do I want? A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances.
Charlotte Bronte
#53. It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
Macklemore
#54. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?
Timothy Ferriss
#55. There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'
James Mercer
#56. That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.
Seimone Augustus
#57. 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
#58. I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."
Hillary Clinton
#59. I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.
Richard Paul Evans
#60. What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?
Jim Brown
#61. You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.
Rachel Caine
#62. I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
Rain Phoenix
#63. The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if ... ?' I just come in and do it.
Lance Henriksen
#64. Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
Olivia Thirlby
#65. I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.
Karen Traviss
#66. So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.
James Schannep
#67. Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want",but they know they would not like to be black here.
If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie.
James Baldwin
#68. I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.
James A. Michener
#69. If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is everything that I do, I do for the Glory of Lord. Because of my Christian faith, that's who I am. I wasn't always that way, but I'm very proud that I am.
Tony Dungy
#70. being meek and silent prevents social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking
Rory Miller
#71. A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?
Katie Hopkins
#72. I'm not sure what kind of love you mean, baby, but if you mean do I want you to be with me forever, that I can't bear the thought of being without you as my lover, my best friend, my whole world....one day my wife, and my baby mama, then yes, I Love you, Love you!
S.E. Hall
#73. Sorry, I just want a quick little summary of what you do."
Wick chuckled. "He already knows you're long-winded, mate."
Dov glared at him. "I'm sorry?"
Wick's smile split his face as he bumped his colleague with his shoulder and then turned to me.
Mary Calmes
#74. Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason?
Alice Munro
#75. I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.
Andy Serkis
#76. Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate.
Kathryn Lasky
#77. How do I know that I don't need what
I want? I don't have it.
Byron Katie
#78. I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
Samuel R. Delany
#79. I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.
Kevin Hart
#80. Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'
Kate Winslet
#81. I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
Elayne Boosler
#82. The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan Quayle
#83. I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.
Sam Harris
#84. Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
Elizabeth Edwards
#85. I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.
Martha Plimpton
#86. I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?
Yuri Milner
#87. When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.
Lupe Fiasco
#88. I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.
Wes Borland
#89. Nothing left but true: "You're gravity I can't escape." His sore heart labored beats in the darkness. "What am I supposed to do with that?" she said. "What you can," he said. "What you want.
James Grady
#90. I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.
Christine Quinn
#91. People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
Christopher Guest
#92. What would we do together?" Cath asked. "He'd want to go to the bar,and I'd want to stay home and write fanfiction.
Rainbow Rowell
#93. The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?
Graham Swift
#94. When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.
Eva Green
#95. Well ... " Enoch's voice broke into his thoughts. "What do you think?" "I want Taylor to have the pick of the litter." "In the long run, it wouldn't be a bad idea for her to have a dog. Until things simmer down, I want to hire you to guard my sister." "No need. I'm going to marry her.
Cathy Marie Hake
#96. There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next.
Sue Gardner
#97. Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen
Dick Cheney
#98. Eden, it would be a lie if I told you I didn't want to kiss those perfect lips again. That's what I am fighting with at the moment, so no I do not want you to leave. I want you to stick around so you can continue to torment me.
Rachel Brookes
#99. If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.
John McEnroe
#100. I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.
Rodney Atkins
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