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.

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.

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

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.

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 couldn’t pick just one.The moment I’d touched the sugar packet, a thousand thoughts cascaded through my mind.I want to go shopping in Times Square.I want to go to the top of the Empire State...

You’re right, I do indeed want you. That doesn’t change the fact that you’re an asshole.

I want you. But I’m scared to say it out loud. And it sucks because I’ve always been someone who always says things out loud.

That’s how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved....

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want.

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I...

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but...

Sometimes it’s a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!

Sometimes you don’t even know what you want until you find out you can’t have it.

Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want to create your bliss.

When you’re looking for a relationship, the process weakens you. you feel you have to bear with whatever the other person wants. Each of the people I have met has made this a little more...

Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world’s unfathomable variety.

If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to...

I don’t want to be dying. I want to be dead.

I’ve wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn’t overwhelm me with desire, you’re very wrong. I just don’t force myself where I’m not...

Because I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I’m not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate...

I can’t need you, but I need you to need me. I know that makes me a selfish bastard but it’s all I can offer.

Do what you want that works.

I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.

Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy.

A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a writing workshop. One of the things she told us about writing a novel...

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

There are literally billions of people on earth. There are some that won’t admit it, but all of those people want friends.

My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to...

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

You bloody want me. You can deny it if that helps you sleep better at night, but you’re going to end up in my bed sooner or later. Want it or not.

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

life has a funny way of testing you to see if you really want, what you say you want.

There’s not one good thought in that place. There’s nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.

If you want more from life — start by counting your blessings instead of counting your losses, deficits and wants.

The mind has the ability to trick the body into believing it is happy and that all is well – the heart however, feels it. And as the saying goes, ‘The heart wants what the...

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.