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• If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Done, Counting, Explanation

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• Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don't know what they want. We think they are mad.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, Native American, Eye

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.75, New World Library

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• If I'm outside, I want something flat on my feet.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Feet, Flats, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

  Sophie Hannah

  Ambitious, Rewards, Plot

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• It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

  Meister Eckhart

  Blessing, Hands, Opposites

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• My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.

  Stevie Nicks

  Believe, Life Is, Testament

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• It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Stronger, That One Person, Hundred

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• I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Tired, Thinking, People

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.

  Steven Tyler

  Book, Taken, Writing

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• If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Ifs, Want

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Doe, Different, Needs

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

  Chris Pine

  Emotion, Enough, Happens

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• If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.

  Jack Canfield

  Letting Go, Mean, Past

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 12, 2012

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• If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

  Catherine Ndereba

  Sacrifice, Gains, I Have Learned

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• Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time.

  Mod Sun

  Thinking, May, Existence

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• I had dreams. And I had to pursue them; otherwise my soul would have shriveled. The hardest part was allowing myself to want something other than what was socially acceptable, telling myself to go after it, then actually doing it.

  Connor Franta

  Dream, Soul, Hardest

  Connor Franta (2015). “A Work in Progress: A Memoir”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always loved those movies where somebody thinks they want something, and then they realize that the thing they really want is right in front of them.

  John Krasinski

  Thinking, Realizing, Fronts

  "Interview: Drew Barrymore & John Krasinski on ‘Big Miracle,’ Politics, & Jaded Hollywood". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. February 4, 2012.

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• It was difficult for me to understand that, when you're kind to someone in a big city, a lot of the time, they think that you want something. I didn't understand that, all of a sudden, niceness meant that you were trying to get something out of somebody.

  Jaime King

  Thinking, Cities, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.

  Eric Dickerson

  Nfl, Sitting, Matter

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• How many cars out there look like Corvettes? You want something nobody else has. You don't want an old look-alike thing, and that's why Corvettes have the reputation of being one of the fastest cars. I've always had good cars, and a Corvette is one of the best cars I've had. I've had Lamborghinis, I've had Ferraris, I've had Stutz Blackhawks. You name it, I've had them. For the money, Corvette is tops.

  Jack LaLanne

  Names, Car, Ferrari

  Source: www.superchevy.com

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  If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

  Cher

  Inspirational, Determination, Motivation

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• If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

  Joanne Harris

  Mother, Ethics, Working It

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• People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Anchors, People, World

  "Leader of Mormon Church Looks to Future". Interview, articles.latimes.com. March 8, 1997.

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• I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn.

  Julie Delpy

  Ideas, People, Stubborn

  "Chris Rock & Julie Delpy On ‘2 Days In New York’ And Michael Scott’s Chris Rock Impression". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.

  Garcelle Beauvais

  Men, Want, Skinny

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