Desire Quotes (1093 Quotes)


    I am delighted to see Jonah back on the field again. I had the privilege of captaining him for the All Blacks and he is one of the most dangerous wings the game has ever seen. It is a testament to the kind of man Jonah is that he is back on the rugby field. He is driven by a desire to succeed and we will have to make sure we are ready for him.


    Where we think the consumers' desire is really headed is how do they integrate more what's available on broadcast networkwith what's available on a PC today and get one experience.





    The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.



    There's no doubt about it, I truly feel you have to be a good defensive team to go anywhere. Defense is a lot of attitude and desire. You have to be disciplined and you have to be a real competitor to play defense. At this point in time, we have a way to go to get there.

    I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.



    This week there are a couple of changes to our tight five. The overall desire is to make sure we have heaps of energy in that area and to show a bit more enthusiasm this week.

    It starts with an attitude, like a desire, kind of an appreciation for the fact that there's a right way to play, ... I think when you don't make the extra pass or you take a bad shot or you are selfish ... you have to hate that about yourself.



    Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.


    It's an important goal of ours to have strategic relationships with all the major platform suppliers. Specifically noteworthy, we have a desire to work with IBM. But people say, 'IBM has a database.' We don't see that as an issue.


    The drama's altar isn't on the stage it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.



    I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.




    IBM'S Basic BELIEFS AND FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES Our beliefs, which should be well known to every IBMer, are 1. Respect for the individual. 2. A desire to have the best customer service of any company in the world. 3. The conviction that an organization sh.

    Like the use of the word 'concupiscence' in an earlier age to describe sexual desire, the use of the word 'pollution' to describe essential aspects of the productive activities of an industrial society represents an attempt to defame an entirely proper human capacity by means of using an evil sounding name for it.

    The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble no design, no desire.



    That's not to say that the deficit isn't a concern. In the end, the desire is for this to balance out and bring up India and China and the wages there so their ability to purchase goods and products will increase and as a result these trade imbalances won't become so one-way.

    To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

    Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity easy vulnerability high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely) a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

    I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.






    Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

    We are extremely happy to have an agreement on the key terms of the contract. I have said all along that we were committed to keeping coach Mason at the University of Minnesota and today is certainly an indication of that desire.


    There are six things that 'keep us going.' First, the instinct to live, which we apparently have no part in making or deciding about. Second, group consciousness and the desire that we have to win the approbation of our fellows within the group. Third, the various interests that we may find in life, such as religion or art or some such other branch of esthetics. Fourth, in our climate the habit of work. Fifth, the sheer joy of physical life that we find in hours of well-earned recreation after hard work games, fishing, tramping the hills, a good book before an open fire. Sixth, and most important, the general feeling that we have that there is some abstract goodness or rightness in the world with which we may cooperate in making the world a fine place for a splendid race of men, women and children to live in.

    I strongly believe the desire of Californians must come before the aspirations of any single candidate. There are too many Republicans in this race and the people of our state simply cannot risk a continuation of the Gray Davis legacy. For these reasons, I think it is wise to step aside.

    So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

    Mick was a good athlete. A 50-year-old guy looking at Mick had to love him. He was living the life they wanted to live but very few had a shot at. I don't think he had any desire to go pro, but there weren't any pros that he wasn't friendly with.




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