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Quotes About Desires

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
~ Eric Hoffer
God's will is your deepest desires.
~ Dan Brown
When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.
~ Deepak Chopra
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
~ Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.
~ Joseph Epstein
Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.
~ Brian Tracy
We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.
~ Miuccia Prada
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
~ Kahlil Gibran
In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.
~ Claudius Claudianus
When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.
~ Hugh Jackman
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
~ Wallace Stevens
What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.
~ Unknown
We all have our dreams.
~ Roger Moore
And our dreams are who we are.
~ Barbara Sher
Do you have plans or dreams? Why not have both?
~ Unknown
We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.
~ Libba Bray, Lair of Dreams
We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.
~ Alain Wertheimer
Recognize that most of our interactions with products are actually interactions with a complex system: good design requires consideration of the entire system to ensure that the requirements, intentions, and desires at each stage are faithfully understood and respected at all the other stages.
~ Donald A. Norman
the real problem is that numerical correlations say nothing of people's real needs, of their desires, and of the reasons for their activities. As a result, these numerical data can give a false impression of people. But the use of big data and market analytics is seductive: no travel, little expense, and huge numbers, sexy charts, and impressive statistics, all very persuasive to the executive team trying to decide which new products to develop.
~ Donald A. Norman
The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. If you want to know what a person's story is about, just ask them what they want. If we don't want anything, we are living boring stories, and if we want a Roomba vaccum cleaner, we are living stupid stories. If it won't work in a story, it won't work in life.
~ Donald Miller
STORYBRAND PRINCIPLE TWO: COMPANIES TEND TO SELL SOLUTIONS TO EXTERNAL PROBLEMS, BUT CUSTOMERS BUY SOLUTIONS TO INTERNAL PROBLEMS.
~ Donald Miller