#desire

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#fulfillment #increases #postponed

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win. ↗

— Lorii Myers

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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ↗

— Epictetus

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I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#country #desire #does #done #i

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

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