#desire

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ↗

— Jane Smiley

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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. ↗

— Layne Staley

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The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. ↗

— Richard Stallman

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

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