#desire

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#desire #wisdom

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#desire #filmmaking #get #i #need

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#desires #fact #falls #illusion #instinctual

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#almost #also #anger #appeal #being

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#away #cycles #desire #fame #how

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#achieve #american #american companies #because #companies

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. ↗

— Henry George

#desires #fed #increase #man #never

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#between #consenting #consenting adults #curtail #department

Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#back #come #desire #game #i

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#been #change #desire #equally #forward