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- Nov 07, 2020
Desire Quotes
The drive behind every goal worth chasing.
This collection frames desire as fuel - for personal energy, industry leadership, and even the universe's own push toward improvement. It's a theme that swings between ambition and restraint. Explore related lines under Dream.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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From a young age, I've had a desire to put forward this perfect image, whatever perfect was.
- Problem
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Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.
- Fanatical
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The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
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When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
- Others
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There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
- Peace
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From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.
- Desires
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
- Must
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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
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I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.
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One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
- Like
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
- History
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I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all of your self worth and esteem is invested in how much you consume, how many likes you get, or other quantifiable measures, the desire to simply possess things trumps our ability or capability to make moral connections with people around us.
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- Nov 07, 2020