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“You want to choose a path that puts the odds of winning in your favor; in poker, it’s called game selection. What determines if you win in any game (or business) isn’t how good you are; it’s how good you are relative to your competition. That’s why it’s so important to know your own strengths and weaknesses and find a market in which you have an inherent advantage.”
Source: Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
“You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.”
“You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.
The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.”
Source: Boy Nobody
“You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.”
“You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.”
“You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.”
“You want to come in?" she asked softly.
He leveled his gaze at her. "You know what's likely going to happen if I go in there, right?"
She didn't blink. "Yeah. That's why I'm asking.”
Source: Wolf Trouble
“You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.”
“You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.”
“You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.”
“You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.”
“You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
“You want to cry, because you remember what sex used to mean to you, before. Before you realized how good it could feel, before you discovered what you liked. But you push it out of your mind. You push it all out of your mind.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!”
“You want to dance with me, angel tits?”
Source: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
“You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.”
“You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.”
“You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.”
“You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging”
“You want to do all of these preventative things to make sure you always look as young as possible, you don't want to look your age. Looking young and attractive matters, even more than the type of person you are, even more than the actions you commit.”
“You want to do movies that you are proud of - telling a story that you want to tell, not a story that you are forced to. Of course, as an actor, there are some things that you do that you try to forget about, but that's part of the job.”
“You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.”
“You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.”
“You want to do something a little bit meaningful, because we're not saving the planet or anything, but we want to contribute in a positive way, in a way that makes a difference or makes somebody feel something.”
“You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared to death -- take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; its doing nothing when you feel afraid.”
“You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!”
“You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.”
“You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!”
“You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.”
“You want to do tax reductions, you want to do permanent tax reduction, reductions in spending. You've got to go out and explain it to the people, get them on your side and have them become the levers that you need in congressional relations.”
“You want to do the right thing," said Ramy, bullish. "You always do. But you think the right thing is martyrdom. You think if you suffer enough for whatever sins you've committed, then you're absolved."
"I do not-"
"That's why you took the fall for us that night. Every time you come up against something difficult, you just want to make it go away, and you think the way to do that is self-flagellation. You're obsessed with punishment. But that's not how this works, Birdie. You going to prison fixes nothing. You hanging from the gallows fixes nothing. The world's still broken. A war's still coming. The only way to properly make amends is to stop it, which you don't want to do, because really what this is about is your being afraid.”
Source: Babel
“You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Singin' in the Rain. I watched those, over and over again, so of course, I want to do musicals.”
“You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.”
“You want to do what you can while you are on this earth. Otherwise, the alternative is to go shopping.”
“You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.”
“You want to drive it.”
“Me? I’m only twelve.”
“I didn’t ask you how old you are. Do you want to drive the tractor?”
Source: Just Out Of Reach
“You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?”
“You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.”
“You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.”
“You want to enter my paradise/spaceship where you
think you can survive for several thousand years.
I want more.”
Source: Third-Millennium Heart
“You want to erase choice.”
Source: 02:55
“You want to evaluate musical art on its own terms, first. It is only when you have a solid grasp of that, that you can start to speculate.”
Source: Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
“You want to exist after you die? Then make your life count by leaving a positive impact on earth.
Change your pursuit from capital gain to elimination of humanity’s pain.
Live consciously, exist eternally”
“You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.”
Source: A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman
“You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch on the edge of a cliff and going forward seems impossible, not for a lack of will, but a lack of space. The possibility of another day stands in defiance of the laws of physics. And you can't go back. So you want to fall, let go, give up, but you can't. And every breath you take reminds you of that fact. So it goes.”
“You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.”
“You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.”
“You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.”
“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!”