#desire

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. ↗

— John McEnroe

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In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film. ↗

— Norman McLaren

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You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman. ↗

— Lionel Messi

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Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass! ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. ↗

— John Osborne

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MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. ↗

— James Otis

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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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