Getting What You Want Quotes - Page 2

• Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

  Robert Anthony

  Levels, Changing Your Life, Feels

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.60, Morgan James Publishing

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• Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhism, Empowering, Want

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.123, Shambhala Publications

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• There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.

  Tim Ferriss

  Work, Comfort, Spheres

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• But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Heart, Desire

  Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

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• The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sandman, Wanted, Want

  "Dream Country (The Sandman, Book 3)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, July – October 1990.

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• With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.

  Charles Burnett

  Real, Character, Personality

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.

  Michael Neill

  Letting Go, Trying, Increase

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• What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we're truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

  Alain de Botton

  Giving Up, Ambition, Journey

  "What's A Kinder Way To Frame Success?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

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• Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.

  Keanu Reeves

  Acting, Dominance, Violence

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.

  Bob Proctor

  Thinking, People, Growth

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

  Tom Krause

  Giving, Important, Want

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• Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

  Alan Cohen

  Joy, Way, Results

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• Great negotiators never lose sight of what they are aiming at, which is not an agreement per se, but a desired outcome....Getting to yes is easy, all you have to do is roll over. It's getting what you want that's hard.

  Robert Gallucci

  Sight, Agreement, Outcomes

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• The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Believe, Secret

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• In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Simple, Age, Forgotten

  "The best things in life are..." by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• 'Fantasy' is one of the fewer tracks where it's more literal than most of our things, but at the same time it's totally open-ended. Clearly it's a song about things not really appearing as you want them to, or things either getting what you want and not being satisfied with it because it wasn't how you hoped it would be, or thinking you want something and not getting it and the realisation of that.

  Lizzy Plapinger

  Song, Thinking, Want Something

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• Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

  Byron Katie

  Fear, Two, Causes

  Twitter post from Feb 06, 2011

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• ...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Two, Unhappy, Way

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2008.

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• Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Responsibility, Self, Great Love

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• Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

  Unknown

  Want, Morality, What You Want

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• Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Opposites, Toys

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• I believe that the voices of fear, both from without and within, can only be dispelled by trusting the voice that comes from the heart. Be still and listen to it. If it speaks of love and compassion for others, for the world itself, it just might be the voice of God - or a reasonable facsimile. If, however, it snarls with fear of the unknown, fear of losing what you have or of not getting what you want, then it just might be the voice of Rupert Murdoch - or a reasonable facsimile.

  Chuck Lorre

  Believe, Heart, Compassion

  "'The Big Bang Theory' ('The Tangerine Factor')". Quote during Credits, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

  David Levithan

  Figures, Difficult, Want

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.177, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

  David Levithan

  Want, Easier, What You Want

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.116, Egmont UK

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• Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

  David Myers

  Inspirational, Want, Satisfaction

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