"I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know."
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"What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things."
"The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport."
"Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important."
"I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it."
"The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this."
"Our problem with desire is that we want too little."
"No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive."
"When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess - we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop - let's get to work."
"When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end."
"Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite."
"I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible."
"It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?"
"Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you."
"We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are."
"I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change."
"Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go."
"There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all."
"I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people."
"Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower."