Quotes About Desire

Information is available freely on the Net, but what's missing is passion. And only a teacher can impart that passion and deep desire for excellence every day. Moreover, a classroom environment helps overcome certain psychological aspects, including inferiority complex.

Psychologically, when you've been overweight, you want to achieve the polar opposite.

The psychology of fashion is interesting because we're selling people something they don't really need. We're just selling them something that makes them feel good. Besides, there is nothing really new in fashion. Everything worth doing has been done before.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

I never wanted this... to be in the public eye.

I have no desire to run for public office.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

I never wanted to be famous and live my life in the glare of publicity.

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

I love Los Angeles, and I've secretly always wanted to do a song about Los Angeles, but it's a hard thing to pull off.

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most.

I think with fighting you have to have a desire to achieve something. You never see a rich kid get to the top of any combat sport because they don't have the drive. All the great boxers come from the ghetto. They all had nothing. They have the desire, the hunger but the rich kid is not going to get punched in the face. Why would they?

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

I would love to get a pug. A puppy, a baby pug - I just want one so bad.

Staymakers and fashion designers have always wanted us to purchase new clothes, so they change their output year on year - we feel out of date, and feel that itch to buy.

People want to connect with what they're purchasing.

For me, the male gaze is oppressive. And I hope if we are building a female gaze that it's inclusive, and it's about pure desire and not how I want people to look in order for them to be desired by me.