Quotes About Wants

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

What do people want? Well, you really can't talk about wants until you talk about needs.

Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.

It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug free America. They want an America free of drugs that are their competitors.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

Why does everyone like this movie? And Americans kept going to the movie. So Hollywood figures out the market, and the market wants to know what happened in Benghazi.

On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.