“Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.” DreamDesireArtistTurnsAchieveHavensTerribleStriveHungerObsessionGreedyJuice Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.” WayWritingDoneDesireFictionWrittenHavensLatePublishingAmazedAnother WayMore To Life Author:Philip Roth
“Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?” KnowsWantStillsDesireHavens Author:Jane Wagner
“there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.” MayDesireOne ThingHavensRiches Author:Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
“I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You're mistaken.” And, therefore, I'm thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven't thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.” ThinkingWayCountrySeemsDesireNationsSimpleAnswersUnitedFateHavensConflictClaimsConsistentPatrioticPatriotMistakenUnited NationsHis LoveAmerican Patriot Author:Jonah Goldberg
“Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.” Has BeensDesireLostGrowingHappenedHavensMellow Author:Brett Dennen
“For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.” Has BeensWantedPoliticalDesirePoliticsStrongCan DoEffortGroupsModernTalentHavensLimitsStructureOperationsComplexityModern LifeGroup Effort Author:Clay Shirky
“Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.” PeopleYearsDesireLossPowerfulHavensConversationIllusionSafetyAffairFlatsComplacency Author:Esther Perel
“I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.” IfsThinkingTryingYearsMadeIdeasHardWantedDesireStuffSoundRecordsHavensWalkingBurningWheelsSoloEffortlessBurning DesireWeird Stuff Author:Johnny Marr