C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us."
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Ice Cube
Rapper, Actor
"If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us."
Beyonce Knowles
Singer
"It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?"
Mod Sun
Musician
"Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time."
Aung San Suu Kyi
Politician, Activist
"The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to."
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"Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other’s company."
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"If you want something done, ask a busy person."
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"If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle."
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"And it hurts so much to want something you can't have."
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"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."
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"If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it."
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"We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves."
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"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
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"You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around."
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"When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World.... when you love someone with all your heart, that's when you are transformed." "Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive... and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.... we continue to change as change is the nature of man. No one is "just this way". That is who they are today - it will not be who they are tomorrow."
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"It's no use saying do this, do that, don't do that ... it's very easy when children want something to say no immediately. I think it's quite important not to give an unequivocal answer at once. Much better to think it over. Then, if you eventually say no, I think they really accept it."
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"Success is mostly driven by how badly you want something and how well you partner with other great people. It has to do with how hungry you are."
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"It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."
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"Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."
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"If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question."
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"Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long."
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"When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force."
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"It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do."
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"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
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"Customers always want something new"
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