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• However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

  Horace

  Names, Imperfect, Rich

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• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Speak, Stranger

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.258, St. Martin's Press

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• Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Looks, Development, World

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• Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

  Agnes Smedley

  Russia, Imagination

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  You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

  Mick Jagger

  Trying, Needs, Want

  FaceBook post by Mick Jagger from Jun 15, 2012

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• Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com

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• It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

  Helen Keller

  Hard Work, Heart, Doors

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  Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

  James M. Barrie

  Life, Dream, Sacrifice

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• You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

  Aristotle

  Men, Sisyphus, Satisfied

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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• Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

  Thomas Troward

  Facts, Concrete, Dues

  Thomas Troward (2013). “The Wisdom of Thomas Troward”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

  Epictetus

  Life, Patience, Time

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.48

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• If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

  James Allen

  Real, Opportunity, Waiting

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• We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Should, Impression

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• Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.

  Gerald Brommer

  Want, Way, Paint

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• A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

  Ayn Rand

  Doe, Care, Causes

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.13, Penguin

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• I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

  Don Henley

  Want, Talent, Ability

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• People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

  Linda Stone

  People, Attention, Aphrodisiac

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• I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

  Alfred Brendel

  Needs, Fantastic, Grotesque

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• I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

  Wanda Koop

  Appetite, Translate, I Can

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• It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Mean, Views, Essentials

  "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 232), 1963.

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• I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

  Elizabeth Barton

  Everyday, Wish, Important

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• I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

  Claude Monet

  Paint, Fine

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• I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

  Nathan Oliveira

  Painting, Paint, Figures

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• A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

  Harvey Dunn

  Hurt, Men, Talent

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