“If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.” IfsChildrenReasonFacesDesireFatherParentBehindsExampleDirectVicesTheeVirtuousBehaviourRipeRebuke Author:Francis Quarles
“The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWellsKindLongDoneDesireNaturalExampleProduceSucceedDirectorsHollywoodInstinctProducersBad TimesRenoir Author:Orson Welles
“Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.” DesireExampleSweetColdOppositesHotBitterDryVoidBlunt Book:The Complete Plato Source: The Complete Plato
“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!” YearsHeartDesirePleasureGoneGreaterExampleSucceedMusicalBlowCrowdsNoiseGenerousInternalsEnginesOrgansRealismDistributionAutomobileViolinSlapCombiningWagnerRehearsingRestrainingGroaningCombustionSatedUst Author:Luigi Russolo
“It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman” MenMayRealityDesireExampleAmbitionCherishSolitaryMadmenExtravagantSemblance Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
“Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.” PeopleFirstsDesireWishExampleTenPrioritiesSecureCommandmentsImpressYou AgainTen CommandmentsGod FirstPut God First Author:Dallas Willard
“If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.” IfsChildrenEyeDesireNationsCommunityCitiesSeeingExampleAdultsEndeavorSensibleHumaneKinderThrough The EyesEyes Of A Child Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future
“I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!” PeopleIfsGivingMayI CanHelpingWantedDesireChanceAdviceExampleInspirePrayingNeededUpliftingInterfereSuggestionsI PrayRadiantInferenceDictation Author:Elbert Hubbard