Quotes About Wants

We cannot hold a concept of well-being that ignores what people want

Pay and profit tell you that you are supplying a need and filling other people's wants. They are not the motivation for your work, they are the validation of your work.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be means to that end.

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

The Union, now being in alliance with the ship-owners, could not very well see eye to eye with the average wants and desires of boys. The boys remained boys all their lives and for ever. They accepted a black mark upon the brow, their eyes became black too, their hands, rather than those of children, which many of them were, resembled those of farm labourers.

Moral leadership emerges from, and always returns to, the fundamental wants and needs, aspirations, and values of the followers.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

The prospect of watching the Crawford family at grips with itself was something that, blissfully, he wanted very much for his birthday.

Beaucoup de gens se plaignent de n'avoir pas ceci ou cela ; mais la cause en est toujours qu'ils ne l'ont point vraiment désiré.

The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair color, all the way down to what she does for a living, what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day, dating is dating, because they're human beings.

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

Sometimes what other people want is wantable, briefly, before dissolving in the face of your own wants.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

The thing about Luke Cage that makes him different is - on the surface is he's a hero for hire; Luke Cage wants to get paid. Luke Cage in the comic books is like, 'I'm doing this stuff. It's all well and good, but I gotta make a dollar.'

To make the society [which of course consists of non-workers] happy and people easier under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor; knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our desires, and the fewer things a man wishes for, the more easily his necessities may be supplied. [3] What Mandeville

A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.

London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.