What You Want Quotes (page 23)

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• attitude
• money
• people

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have. Maria Bartiromo

• bigs
• big things
• thing

The big thing is that you know what you want. Earl Nightingale

• wants
• being prepared
• wanted

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! Maya Angelou

• life
• wisdom
• energy

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it. P. D. James

• life
• two
• get

There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde

• god
• saying
• takes

Take what you want, says God, but pay for it Agatha Christie

• inspirational
• discipline
• life

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined. Noam Chomsky

• saying
• easy
• wanted

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it Mario Vargas Llosa

• time
• happy
• freedom

Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• time
• wanting
• timely

I hate time. It never does what you want it to. Nick Hornby

• smile
• children
• crying

Marie, now Mme. Driscoll, turned to Berthe and smiled, as she used to when they were children. Once again, the smile said, Have I done the right thing? Is this what you wanted? Yes, yes, said Berthe silently, but she went on crying. Mavis Gallant

• life
• achievement
• achieving

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith

• leaving
• saving money
• christmas

Sounds awful."No, it's wonderful. And it's just for one year. Let's take a break. Blair's not here. she'll be back next year and we can jump back into the Christmas chaos, if that's what you want. Come on, Nora, please. We skip Christmas, save the money, and go splash in the Caribbean for ten days."How much will it cost?"Three thousand bucks."So we save money?"Absolutely."When do we leave?"High noon, Christmas Day."They stared at each other for a long time. John Grisham

• eyes
• crying
• shine

Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna."Crys shrugged. "So?"So? So what? You want it should sing, too? Barbara Kingsolver

• look
• doings
• living

The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you wanted. Richard Wright