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Quotes About Desire

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.
~ Richard Koch
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it
~ Steve Jobs
Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.
~ Gary Cooper
I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don't, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.
~ Rumi
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
~ Sherwood Anderson
You've got to find what you love.
~ Steve Jobs
Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures - I take that into life.
~ Dwayne Johnson
There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.
~ Emmanuelle Beart
Love is never going to go out of style, a man is always going to want to have the love of a woman. She just needs a game plan to work out how to get his love.
~ Steve Harvey
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.
~ Donna Dixon
It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.
~ Liya Kebede
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.
~ Oscar Wilde
..... your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus upon it. For it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it. That is the process of creating
~ Esther Hicks
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
~ Antonin Artaud
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
~ Michael Jordan
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
~ Bette Davis
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
~ Steve Jobs
Now Listen You know I work so hard, all day long Everything I try to do, Seem to always turn out wrong That's why I wanna stop by on my way home and say Let's go get stoned
~ Ray Charles
I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer