Quotes About Desire

The strange thing was that it never did seem to satisfy them. They always looked disappointed when they let me go. I wished I could have pleased them, so they might have relented.

I wanted to have a make-believe world because I couldn't bear to live in the real one.

I wanted another drink; I wanted another bottle; I wanted to drain the river Lethe till I was ready to be born again.

We are not good to each other. Our tribalism is to an extremely narrow group of people: our children, our spouse, maybe our parents. Our society is alienating, technical, cold, and mystifying. Our fundamental desire, as human beings, is to be close to others, and our society does not allow for that.

We are not good to each other. Our tribalism is to an extremely narrow group of people: our children, our spouse, maybe our parents. Our society is alienating, technical, cold, and mystifying. Our fundamental desire, as human beings, is to be close to others, and our society does not allow for that." One

A young couple who love each other but who can't be together as they long to be because someone is preventing it.4

the expectation of a windfall when the palms of empty hands itched.

Cómo puede uno comer cuando el corazón está ocupado?

Now it is quite true to say that curiosity, exactly like its analogue, lust, never ends and is never satisfied; but man was made for something more than this. He was made to rise, above curiosity and lust, to love, and through love to the attainment of truth.

No es acaso el atiborramiento la forma más refinada del sadismo? Y el amor, llevado a este punto de saturación de la demanda, ¿no se convierte en una forma de tortura?

If consumers have everything they need, there's nothing left to buy except stuff that they want. And the reason they buy stuff they want is because of the way it makes them feel.

4: Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.

People don't want what you make They want what it will do for them.

Michael Jordan wasn't the first basketball hero by any means, but our desire to have a hero, as sparked by earlier stars like Wilt Chamberlain and Larry Bird, made it easier for Michael to walk in and fill a role that had to be filled by someone.

They want the way it will make them feel.

Scarcity creates value, and what's scarce is a desire to accept what is and then work to change it for the better, not deny that it exists.

Theodore Levitt famously said, "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole." The lesson is that the drill bit is merely a feature, a means to an end, but what people truly want is the hole it makes.

the proven truth about creativity: it's the result of desire—the desire to find a new truth, solve an old problem, or serve someone else.

Everyone wants something that they can't possibly have. And if they could have it, they'd discover that they didn't really want it all along.

Harvard marketing professor Theodore Levitt famously said, "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole.

Initiative is a little like creativity in that both require curiosity. Not the search for the "right" answer, as much as an insatiable desire to understand how something works and how it might work better.

Desire for gain versus avoidance of loss.

Status is our position in the hierarchy. It's also our perception of that position. Status protects us. Status helps us get what we want. Status gives us the leverage to make change happen. Status is a place to hide. Status can be a gift or a burden. Status creates a narrative that changes our perceived options, alters our choices, and undermines (or supports) our future. And the desire to change our status, or to protect it, drives almost everything we do.

If you can bring someone belonging, connection, peace of mind, status, or one of the other most desired emotions, you've done something worthwhile. The thing you sell is simply a road to achieve those emotions, and we let everyone down when we focus on the tactics, not the outcomes.