Want Quotes

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

~ Bill Gates

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

~ Samuel Butler

If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.

~ Sigmar Gabriel

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

~ Dick Dale

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

~ Blake Shelton

I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!

~ Cara Delevingne

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

~ Gabrielle Union

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

~ Natalie Portman

I really want a pet, and I really love animals.

~ Aurora

Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?

~ Paul Shaffer

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

~ Connie Stevens

At its very core, virtual reality is about being freed from the limitations of actual reality. Carrying your virtual reality with you, and being able to jump into it whenever and wherever you want, qualitatively changes the experience for the better. Experiencing mobile VR is like when you first tried a decent desktop VR experience.

~ John Carmack

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

~ Emil Zatopek

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

~ Kiesza

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

~ Wayne Rooney

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

~ Nelson Mandela

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

~ Emil Zatopek

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

~ David Lynch

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

~ S. E. Hinton

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

~ Debbie Harry

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

~ Jose Canseco

I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags.

~ Jessica Ennis

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

~ Erykah Badu

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

~ Bo Bennett

The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.

~ Thelma Golden

I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.

~ Bryan Cranston

If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.

~ Tim Gunn

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

~ Mel Gibson

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

~ Michael Fassbender

I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

~ Marilyn Monroe

My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!

~ Norm Macdonald

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

~ Laura Schlessinger

We fear the thing we want the most.

~ Robert Anthony

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

~ Thomas J. Stanley

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

~ William James

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

~ Tom Landry

Online leadership is about leveraging digital platforms such as blogs, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and other networks to build a loyal following of people who want to learn more about and benefit from your experiences and expertise.

~ Lewis Howes