Wants - Quotes
neither of us is happy
but neither of us wants to leave
so we keep breaking one another
and calling it love
Being unique is what`s cool man. Being normal? What`s that? That`s a setting on a washing machine. Nobody wants to be that.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he`s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you`re ahead.
There are always outside forces trying to tell you what to do. (...) Shut yourself off from anyone who wants to run the show, and run it yourself.
How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
There`s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I`m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I`m not going to let anybody see you.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Everyone wants an exciting life, but most people are afraid to take the bull by the horns. So they take an easy option for an exciting life. They live their excitement through other people.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Whenever you’re looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion - and whenever you’re looking at a problem, you’re feeling negative emotion, which, as you know, never gets us anywhere. But once you take the focus off yourself and your wants, and instead turn it toward how getting what you want might also benefit someone else, well then, you can’t help but succeed.
It is a mistake, [...] to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.
Kids, this Mother`s Day, why don`t you give your mother what she really wants? A break from you!