Quotes About Desired

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

if you have the intent to really change your orientation, then the atmosphere will automatically be created in which desired changes occur. End

Though this was all but a fiction of his own, yet it had its desired effect; Atkins fell upon his knees to beg the captain to intercede with the governor for his life; and all the rest begged of him, for God's sake, that they might not be sent to England.

The product backlog is the cumulative list of desired deliverables for the product.

All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand be inspected, whether dream or vision be seen, whether marking of entrails or mad inspiration be consulted, there must be a Celestial Figure first erected, by the means of whole indications, together with the conjectures of Signs and Similitudes, they endeavour to find out the truth of what is desired.

The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the baroness's dress. But it served the end that was desired for it gave rise to many jests and merry peals of laughter.

Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted narratives purged.

The idea is that there are three opportunities to take measures to elicit or change the behavior as desired: by changing what comes before it (the external factors, or environment), by aiming directly at the behavior itself (through teaching), and by imposing consequences (incentives or penalties).

Many of us hold ourselves back from imagining a desired outcome unless someone can show us how to get there. Unfortunately, that's backward in terms of how our minds work to generate and recognize solutions and methods.

Lydia delighted her. The girl's roughness, her ability, her exuberance, were qualities desired by Sarah for her children. You could make something out of a girl like that. She had power.

advertising is nothing but an expense (not an investment) unless it gets the kind of action desired by the advertiser.

When you're a free agent you want to be wanted.

To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Motivation is knowing you are learning, growing, and succeeding toward your desired outcome while sustaining positive momentum.

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Noise is life. Silence is death. But now, just for this moment, silence doesn't seem so bad. It seems like a desired ending, a destination, a place where noise wants to reach.

Many businesses . . . become highly skilled at using algorithms to produce outcomes that are reliable, that is, consistent and predictable. . . . Companies that devote all their resources to reliability lack the tools to pursue outcomes that are valid, that is, that produce a desired result.

Words are powerful, especially when spoken by one such as yerself. Action taken in haste, in the heat of emotion, rarely yields the desired result.

Incited. That was it, the guidingprinciple of her life in Copenhagen. She was incited to make an impression, a voluptous impression. She was incited to inflame attention and admiration. She was dressed for it, subtly schooled for it. And after a little while she gave herself up wholly to the fascinating business of being seen, gaped at, desired.

The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result.