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“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.”

Life Said Wanted Success Son Taste Police Accounting

Author:Franklin P. Adams

“Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?”

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Author:Gail Godwin

“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.”

“There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everything they are or do seems to be all of a piece, so that even if they wanted to they could not be or do otherwise.”

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Book:Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

Source: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

“I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.”

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Author:Faith Ringgold

“Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.”

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Author:Derek Jeter

“I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.”

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Author:Derek Jeter

“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”

“I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.”

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Author:Pete Sampras

“I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.”

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Author:Richard Branson