"Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more."
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"All human activity is prompted by desire."
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"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires."
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"Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow."
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"When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . ."
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"The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."."
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"Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that."
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"It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on."
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"Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence."
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"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."
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"The ultimate success formula: I) Decide what you want (Be precise! Clarity is power) II) Take action (because desire is not enough) III) Notice what's working or not (You don't want to continue to expend energy on an approach that's worthless IV) Change your approach until you achieve what you want (Flexibility gives you the power to create a new approach and a new result.)"
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"And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone."
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"Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes."
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"No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all."
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"For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars."
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"When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us."
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"My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there."
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"One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected."
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"It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire."
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"It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own."
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