“That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.” PeopleKnowsGovernmentDesireKnow HowHappy People Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.” PeopleKnowsMotivationalDesireKnow HowTeamFitContribution Book:The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs
“He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsDoePainDesireCertainWaitingKnow HowSuccessfulFailingContraryDesperateImpatientObtaining Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayAgeDesireUniverseLevelsPrinciplesKnow HowJourneyIntellectualAskingFundamentalsCuriosityDestinationInstructionDnaWay Of ThinkingAsking QuestionsFundamental PrinciplesIntellectual Curiosity Author:Alan Lightman
“It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you are in the light. To remove yourself from the things you desire or things you find difficult to deal with is no answer.” KnowsWorldLightPainDesireDifficultAnswersDealsKnow HowRemove Author:Frederick Lenz
“We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.” KnowsDesireBornKnow HowSeeingTaste Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenShouldMayMadeLyingDesireWishPoorSilenceKnow HowStageEventsWindHeroIllusionFellowsDeedsAccomplishPregnancyChasingChorusStraws Book:The Dawn of Day Source: The Dawn of Day
“I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.” KnowsYearsSchoolMotherDesireGirlThreeKnow HowTaughtLessonsAffectionDeterminedThree YearsDeceivingEldersMistressMischiefThree Year Olds Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz