I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Talk to people about what they want to hear and they’ll stay for more.Talk to them about what you want them to hear and they’ll soon turn away.

You do not want to compete, you want to be a market of one.

The world doesn’t always give what you want, but it often gives you what you need.

Because I don’t want chumps, I don’t want pushovers, and if you’re a chump and a pushover, I will run over you.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

Do what you have to do to do what you want to do.

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it’s like they say, if you’re not a...

Unless the consequence is ‘death by firing squad’ in my opinion, you do have a choice, and when you choose to do something as opposed to have to do it, you feel so much more...

I want to be a transitory fallen, lifted up by virtues every time.

I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone...

They’re like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can’t have just one.

He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard...

Children don’t understand, when things aren’t given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.

Love was indeed a big responsibility. One must use the word judiciously. One cannot love one day and take away love the next day. It is total caring.

What exactly is it you want?

We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it.

It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.

Please, always look at me this way. Stare into my eyes and see me for who I am and know that there is nothing more than this. When the world calls things into question, you...

People don’t always want what they need nor do they need what they want ; but they always need to want.

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.I want.

Life wants you to have gratitude for the gift of living. Treasure every second.

Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably with the knowledge that I’ll die alone, and I feel nothing so strongly...

what you need and what you want aren’t the same things,

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in...

The whole of my life I have relied on my beauty first, brains second. It was expected, even requested. But You saw right through me from the start. You are the only man I’ve ever...

Don’t apologize. You don’t have to explain yourself. I choose you. I want you.

I know what it is to want something that could destroy you.

He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, it’s addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted.

I sighed. “Now what do I do?” He leaned against my wall. “What do you want to do?” “Since when has that mattered?” “It’s always mattered. It doesn’t mean you’ll get what you want, but...

Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack.

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable...

If you find you’re not getting what you want, stop and think about what it is you really need. If there is a lesson to be learned, learn it. Getting what you need, will often...

You must want a thing enough to chase for it.

I wonder at the starry pattern in the skyAre they little pieces of moon which want to fly..?

We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we’re faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart’s a stubborn organ.

If she wanted you, her eyes would buy you out – and you won’t even know it. Shewas three parts devil, and two parts human; and what remained – unchainedspirit.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is...

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.

Change the world, I know I won’t,Enthralling as always I hope it remains,A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.But my only wish as I take this jaunt,Is for my words on you to impress upon,A...

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

We want more than there is.

I felt need. It was you. I can never allow myself to need you. So, my only choice is to make you need me, because ridding myself of you is no longer an option.

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.

Even if things aren’t going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.